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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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CPU affinity as LSF or compatibility with taskset

Good afternoon, we are currently working with MDS and multithreaded apps and have a question regarding cpu affinity or the possibility of adding specific information to taskset command while executing. When we are using cpuLimits, we see it works ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Support for "every" in the "alter table add partition" to add multiple partitions

The "create table" statement supports this syntax to create a table with multiple partitions: CREATE TABLE DOCUMENTS ( ID INTEGER, CONTENTS VARCHAR(10)) PARTITION BY RANGE (ID)(STARTING 1 ENDING 1000 EVERY 100) This will create a table with 10 par...
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Limit open partitions to avoid very large rsam pool

In systems with a lot of tables informix can have a very large rsam pool. This can cause informix to allocate so much memory it starts swapping or in memory limiting versions (like workgroup, express etc.) to even let the engine crash. Sometimes t...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

all password expiry features required in IPM 12

we require below properties for implementing password expiry in IPM 12 FP8: by setting enable_password_expiry as true and maximum_password_age_for_users But this is very basic feature and it should also include below functionalites: sending user a...
over 1 year ago in Product Master 0 Future consideration

Allow a Db2 z/OS Server to request clients set other JDBC Data Server Driver parameters, such as minTransportObjects or maxTransportObjects

In FL502 of Db2 13, IBM offers MODIFY DDF with the "RQSTWLB" option which allows the Db2 server to tell clients to enable Sysplex Workload Balancing (enableSysplexWLB=true) as long as the client doesn't explicitly set WLB to "false". It would be b...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Allow a Maintenance Window execution to be suspended/cancelled

There are situations that occasionally arise where the execution of a maintenance window needs to be suspended/cancelled. Examples of this are 1) when performing testing or debugging of a maintenance window, 2) when the execution of a maintenance ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Expand DB CFG ddl_compression_def with adaptive option

The adaptive DB CFG extension would give us the opportunity to activate adaptive compression by default. At the moment it is only possible to activate the static camprosseion. Our idea is to set DDL_COMPRESSION_DEF to one of 3 possibilities: 1. NO...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration
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Online backup/restore & log rollforward for ESE to pureScale

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Topic : Restore from DB2 Enterprise Server Edition to DB2 pureScale instance URL : https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG_10.5.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.ha.doc/doc/t0061012.html?lang=en It mentions about the procedure : To restore a data...
over 9 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Add a 'bsub -Gl limit_name' option to separate Fairshare Assignment from the Limit also add a default limit pattern to use if ONE_UG_TREE does not find a matching limit

We have many cases, where we have limits for users, but we also want to want to apply a fairshare group for the job to arrive at a base allocation. Unfortunately, with ONE_UG enabled, if the Fairshare Group does not have a corresponding Limit, not...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

ask for adding "description" into the columns of data asset in Project UI

Please see the two pictures in the attachments: "describe 2": when we click on the data asset , we can see the "description" in the red borders. "describe 1": we hope that "description" also can show in the data asset overview columns which can he...
about 2 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration