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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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PAW admin access with segregated security for each tab (Life Cycle Manager)

PAW admin access is required to use Life Cycle Manger Admin access grants permission to manage other features/databases etc. Our project has 60 instances in each environment with dedicated infra support team (Admins) Application Team manages...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

NodeAgent process suspends CATALOG DCS DATABASE in DB2 CLI

Product: InfoSphere DataStage 11.5 OS: Linux Middleware: DB2 V11.1 When the customer tried to create catalogs with CATALOG DCS DATABASE in DB2 CLI. the command froze. After investigation, the process of NodeAgent causeed the freeze. As a work-...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Improve backup configuration

Actually we need to define some environment variables like DSMI_DIR, DSMI_CONFIG to implement a TSM backup. So in case we forget to configure this at first moment we will need to do an instance restart. Would be better to consider some dynamic par...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 4 Not under consideration

HDR restart mechanism for Primary server.

HDR needs a mechanism to restart when the smx thread exits due to timeouts. (happened twice to us on our Primary HDR server). If the smx thred is restarted (which occurred several times),there is no message posted in the online log indicating so. ...
about 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Stop Auto Restart to Capture Logs

Unexpected restart may happen after crash. Need to ability to stop the restart so appropriate logs can be captured.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

MDM CE workflowengine performance when many IN and OUT scripts are present

This RFE is based on the Case TS001123566 "[ RTC 99551 ] Workflow engine stopped working suddenly" which is open for 115 days already. We've got a lot of custom logic in workflow IN and OUT scripts. Sometimes when there is an execution of heavy lo...
about 7 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

DB2 z/OS LOAD utility fail in utilinit holds UTUT status RFE 125566

Description http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=125566 LOAD REPLACE LOG(YES) fails due to share locks/claims being held on tablespace but leaves tables in UTUT status which makes in inaccessible. Suggest t...
about 7 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Subscriptions are removed from being persistent when a target data channel comms. error is received.

== Customer is running Classic to IIDR/CDC SQL. Target SQL failed due to comms. issue in the data channel which was was considered non recoverable and dropped the sub. from being persistent. Would like the sub. to be restarted in this case.
over 7 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

Retry to start SD on a different host

ESC_SERVICE_START_FAIL_RETRY parameter helps to retry to restart services but if a host is experiencing problem, it will run out of retry limit then move service to Error status. There should be a option to try to startup EGO service, for example ...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 1 Not under consideration

Support High Availailty with hot standby mode

IMS, in support of HA, supports the concept of rolling maintenance where the IMS systems would be shutdown one at a time so that changes/maintenance can be applied. Once applied the system is restarted and the next IMS system is shutdown until we ...
over 7 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration