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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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Send IFCID 317 data to SMF when stmts leaves cache

There is currently no way to get the text of a dynamic SQL statement when it leaves the cache. If one has IFCID 316 turned on, one can collect the SQL usage metrics in SMF, but not the text. One can get the statement text if one uses the EXPLAIN s...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Remove the OBID limitations in the workfile database

Aapplication threads that perform OPEN / FETCH / CLOSE many many times in a loop without performing a COMMIT can exhaust the OBID limit and suffer SQLCODE -497 From a recent SR....... We see in the dump a SELECT statement using insensitive scrolla...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow DSMAX to be set by Db2 command

Our installation has repeatedly had trouble with Db2 shutting down in a timely fashion for IPLs. We have taken dumps and sent them to IBM and IBM has stated repeatedly that the delay in shutdown involves dataset close. We set DSMAX very high and h...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

FTM needs the ability to prioritize Distribution messages in order of the Processing Window the batches are assigned to

If a large number of files come into the system just before and just after the cutoff time for a processing window, depending on the makeup of the files, some files after the cutoff that will be assigned to the next window can be sent to distribut...
almost 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Future consideration

Close without exit

Most software programs allow the user close their work without exiting the program. In SPSS when only one sheet is open there is not option to close, only exit. This affects all users of SPSS. The current setup is cumbersome, being forced to open ...
over 5 years ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Not under consideration

Closing streams

A very useful functionality would be to be able to close streams with a shortcut (usually ctrl + w). Currently I have to right click on each streams then "close the streams" it's not user friendly.For Mac, Windows also.
almost 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Terminate Workflow Instance from Another Workflow

It would be useful to be able to terminate a workflow instance from another workflow. Currently, it is possible to start a workflow for a record, but only if it has not been enrolled already. As an example, when a record is "in review" status, the...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Classic CDC to enable keep alive messages on the CDO connection

If there is no data changes to flow to the target , Classic CDC will leave the CDO connection idle. Something in the network path appears to be ending these connections such that when they are used after a period of inactivity z/OS Communications ...
about 7 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Allow customers to enable multiple consolidations batches to run in parallel

Because of the high volume of the consolidation we need to run during the closing periods, it will be very beneficial to have the ability to run multiple consolidations at the same time, in parallel batch jobs. We understand the risk of running co...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Change Image Copy To Avoid Opening Db2 Data Sets When Making Conditional Image Copies

Our IBM Image Copy jobs are driving 10s of thousands of Db2 data set opens while doing conditional image copies. During our daily batch cycle the vast majority of the data set opens are not needed as there was no activity for the objects stored in...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration