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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Request immediate effect change of DBCREATE_PERMISSION parameter without restarting IDS instance.

I appreciated that security feature DBCREATE_PERMISSION parameter was introduced since IDS 10.00. I would like to request to enhance this feature to be dynamic whereby this parameter can be changed and taking immediate effect online with restartin...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

VSAM Replication ends in error when a CF Structure is rebuild and has to be manually restarted.

When a CF Structure is rebuilt Replication ends in error with CECC0209E - error code 150011.Replication has to be restarted manually (or by our automation) when this occurs.We recognise that a CF rebuild is a rare event but it would be useful if R...
almost 8 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Delivered

No need to restart the OPTIM service for the server settings changes to take effect

Currently and according to IBM documentation " Note: If you make changes to the configuration of a Server while it is running, click Apply , then stop and start the Server to effect the changes." As we're having more customers using TDM we are try...
almost 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Restart Individual Services with one click in Cognos

When stopping and starting individual services in Cognos Administration without restarting all services, there should be a "restart" option in addition to "stop" and "start". It would start the service as soon as the service successfully stops -- ...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Resolution for error 9506 in data replication during DDL changes

In our environment we are using IIDR (CDC) to replicate data from various DB platforms (Source - Oracle, DB2 LUW, AS400, DB2 ZoS) and target the replicated data into Datastage Flat File agent. The data written into flat file will get matured every...
about 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Delivered

scheduling administrative tasks

Possibility to e.g. schedule restart of dispathers. schedule refresh report server connections
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Connect to existing Docker Job to get inside Container

Ability for a User to connect or attach to existing none interactive Job from terminal, that User schedule by bsub, to get access inside Docker Container.This is to be able to troubleshoot from inside running Docker Container. This is critical fea...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Avoid informix instance restart after parameter DBCREATE_PERMISSION being changed.

Informix instance need to be restart once parameter DBCREATE_PERMISSION being changed. It will cause the downtime/business interruption every time user being add/remove. Request avoiding Informix instance restart after DBCREATE_PERMISSION paramete...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Workflow bulk termination and restart enhancements

In developing GRC workflows, it's apparent that if we publish a workflow version and users begin to use it, and then we publish a newer version of the workflow later on, the users are expecting to see the newer version reflected in their existing ...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Make TSA start DB2 under system.slice, in order to gracefully stop/takeover databases on shutdowns/reboots.

Since init was replaced by systemd as the linux main process (in 2014 !), it makes huge difference the way DB2 is started. At server shutdown or reboot, the user processes are all killed, and only then systemd starts to stop the services. This beh...
over 6 years ago in Db2 2 Delivered