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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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Some SQL could trigger the HADR replay-only window, and terminate the connection of the read only appplicationin the standby

SPDB use blow SQL in one of the application. those SQL could trigger the HADR replay-only window, and terminate the connection ot eh read only applicaiton in the standby side. drop table、create table(include PARTITION BY RANGE)、drop indexã...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 1 Delivered

FTM for eTransfer - Configurable probes and timeout values

In the current FTM for Interac e-Trasfers 4.0.3 application that we have running, we had issues with probe failures and timeouts resulting in pods restarting. The issue was sometimes with Aqua, sometimes with Dynatrace or it could be application r...
over 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Interac e-Transfers 1 Not under consideration

DataStage resource tracker should be off by default

By default, the resource_tracker process is on for Linux and AIX customers, however, in newer versions of the software it ends up generating large numbers of hung processes that don't go away even when you restart the DataStage engine (see referen...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 2 Delivered

Change VEMKD Behavior when unable to access vemkd/container/event file

After receiving RFE 145547 (patch build 563255), there was an occurrence where VEMKD continually restarted due to not being able to access the $EGO_CONFDIR/../../kernel/work/vemkd/container/event file. I'm requesting a similar patch to RFE 145547 ...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 2 Not under consideration

mbatch hang/bsub hang issue caused by slowly resolution

We have experienced the following issues. For more information, please refer to case number TS005350597.If any DNS issue happens, egroup resolution is very slow and mbatchd waits for egroup. egroup resolution slow -> mbatchd wait for egroup -&g...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Please increase the timeout value on the SLDS contention situation.

Customers would like to have larger timeout value on the SLDS contention situation. This is because,- SLDS contention situation could happen in production. - It is not a problem or operation mistake. - In that situation, customer does not like to ...
about 9 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Need to modify jobcards related to the Db2 system

Our special challenge: We are using the SCHENV parameter in the JCL to route the job to the right LPAR. Currently we include a note in the jobcards and every user has to change the variable: ==MSG> DB2 Admin: EDIT generated JCL ==MSG> 000001...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

MTS weird behavior after running on 7.2.0-17

Please change the behavior of one task failure causes a restart of the service instance, hence have to restart other running tasks in the same service instance
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2 1 Not under consideration

Tomcat support for Optim Configuration Manager

Fidelity requires Tomcat support for Optim Configuration Manager, specifically to manage JDBC properties and allow for subsetting of DB2 Member targets without a restart of the tomcat application server.
over 9 years ago in Db2 Configuration Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Cluster restart

While using the script egoshutdown.sh to shut down the cluster a lot of grid processes (pem and ssm) survive and turn into zombie processes.Killing these zombies after running the script egoshutdown.sh leads to "Blocked Hosts" after starting the c...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 3 Not under consideration