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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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Installer to identify active DataStage processes

While installing patch on DataStage it took 5hrs to complete the installation . After debugging it is found out that there are active processes hung the patch installation . As part of patch installation we set maintenance mode ON . During install...
about 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Unique DB2 Message To Indicate That GRECP and LPL Recovery Is Complete And There Are No More Objects Flagged As GRECP or LPL

We are using GDPS automation to drive our disaster recovery processes and we have been running into a number of problems with LPL and GRECP recovery due to contention during startup of data sharing groups. This in turn causes failures when MQ shar...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Change SD behavior after a connection broken with SSM, in order to decide whether or not it is necessary to restart the application

Following multiple network issues in the GRID infrastructure, we observed that the SD decides each time to restart SSM after a broken connection even if there is no problem between the client and SSM: the workload continues to run and no broken co...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Delivered

Extend time period that historical run time is tracked for fairshare

We use historical run time as the main component of fairshare to determine job priority and ensure that users receive the appropriate amount of run time on our clusters. The current behavior in LSF with respect to historical run time is that any t...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Dynamically change IFL quantity assigned to an LPAR without restarting DB2

The IFL quantity assigned to an LPAR can be set to a certain number in the configuration screen but there is also an option to enter a number of ‘reserved’ IFLs. It was explained that the reserved amount would require restarting the internal Db2wh...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Timeout retry logic for ADBTEP2 when driven with CM BATCH

as outcome from an AOC workshop : customer experiences sometimes timeouts when running CM BATCH driven ADBTEP2 worklist executions. These timeouts make the WSL execution fail and leaves the change process unfinished. It takes time to identify and ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Delivered

PAX slow/unable to connect - carhplanp01.planning-analytics.ibmcloud.com

When PA times out, currently unable to reconnect without closing all Excel workbooks and at times having to do a full restart.
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

badmin mbdrestart -p customization

Hello, By default, badmin mbdrestart is restarting the whole mbatchd daemon. But most of the time, we need badmin mbdrestart -p. Is it possible to set a parameter that can change this behaviour ? For example, it's more practical to launch badmin m...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Cross-Invalidation due to pcloset/p-lock negotiation avoidance

Problem Statement / Pain points : Whenever there is no R/W activity and PCLOSET threshold is reached, pagesets SWITCH OUT of GBP dependency and the pages in our Bufferpools are cross-invalidated . Thereafter when R/W starts again, pagesets SWITCH ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Temp folder when using TM1Web should clear itself periodically by PASS.

When using TM1Web in some projects, Excel sheets that are published in a web application create temp files when they are opened. These are generated in "C:\Program Files\ibm\cognos\tm1web\webapps\tm1web\excelsheet", i.e. in the installation direct...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration