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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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fencing agent handle promptly and avoid server reboot when it noticed minor lib changes at OS end

Dear IBM Thank you much for such great imitative on HA Auto failover feature on DB2 LUW. We have implemented PACEMAKER with fencing technology on huge number of DB2 servers. Following are the challenges which needs to be addressed and improve the ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Prevent multiple licenses assigned to same user in SPSS License Manager

Problem: License is very limited (24 concurrent) and SPSS is allowing multiple license being used by same user at a time which doesn't makes sense. SPSS should prevent this from happening. Current Workaround: Contact the user, ask to logout, and r...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler 1 Not under consideration

Mail Alert when PAW Backup fails

Whenever Docker Containers restarts frequently, and Scheduled Backups fails; Email to Application Support needed to be sent with relevant logs and details.
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

ADM7007E - Logging The Process holding the database port when this error is logged in the diag could help us better for RCA

Part of critical Protection mode Restart, TSAMP has issued ipclean where the instance restart was not clean due to the below message in the logs. MESSAGE : ADM7007E The SVCENAME DBM configuration parameter, "50000", is configured with a port or a ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Improve existing ZOMBI handling with regards to both SBD and MBD process flows

It will reduce the persistence of ZOMBI jobs in LSF to a shorter time period. Here are the two areas that need improvement. 1) Currently, even though the SBD daemons may be running on a host, a job will remain in ZOMBI status until the SBD is rest...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Ignore log records for a dedicated subscription in IGNORETRANS

In very rare cases Db2 cannot provide log records for Q Capture, e.g. in case of a version mismatch, a compression dictionary error, etc. Removing the subscription and reloading the target is a practical approach. But in some situations (e.g., non...
about 5 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Prevent Parallel Restart if MBATCHD is either in the middle of a event switch or within a predefined period of being in an event switch

Basically, when you do a parallel restart either in the middle of an event switch or just before one, the event switch happens in the foreground and not in the background as designed. This may be a bug, but in any event, if you prevent, or warn no...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Distinguish on-demand and spot instances in HostFactory under one application

In the current setup, all grid jobs run on spot instances. The risk with spot-instances is that they are not dedicated and can be reclaimed anytime due to various reasons. There have been times when a long-running parent task execution stopped at ...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3 Not under consideration

Long Time to restart DB2 caused by Rollback in SYSIBM.SYSSEQUENCE

As in PMR 94522,250,631:"Yes, it'd good to ask customer to submit a RFE so that this issue can be evaluated by the DB2 development architects. The current DB2 behavior was designed and implemented before SYSIBM.SYSSEQUENCE exists. Thank you very m...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Improve the User Interface of SPSS to be as User Friendly as JMP

Making the user interface do more and easier to use would broaden the market for SPSS. Some examples of things you can do in the user interface of JMP that would be good to add to SPSS: Automatically name dummy variables to reflect the different v...
over 2 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration