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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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How to start/stop/restart Suite services on all the nodes in Suite cluster

Currently cluster admin needs to run "systemctl" for all the suite services. It's hard to remember which Suite services are running on which role of nodes in Suite cluster - different services are on master, GUI and compute nodes. So there is a ne...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Add monitoring/alerting on indexing service

There is no direct option to monitor and alert if index service stop working, there is no option to start it again except restart the whole environment and if it stops the search option in cognos portal doesnt work anymore as well as the user do n...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add option to start/restart indexing service

We woud like to have option to start index service on content manager. There is no stand by option if this service stop working, there is no option to start it again except restart the whole environment and if it stops the search option in cognos ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhancements for SSV backup of a DPF database

This is a request from Wells Fargo Bank to enhance the SSV backup of DPF databases. 1. Throttle the execution of a SSV backup by specifying the number of database partitions to concurrently execute a backup on each physical server. 2. Being able t...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Only process the Partitions that a Table is in when reading log records in a DPF environement

We have Tables that are only defined in certain partitions but when we restart a subscription CDC is asking for log records for partitions that do not contain the Table. This causes to have to restore old log files that are not needed for the Tables.
over 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Reorg: Improve Lock Contention

Enhance Reorg:--> Reorg ... allow read access with range partitioned tables--> Options to avoid lock timeouts ---> specify max time for swap phase, restart delay for non-succeeding swap phase, deadline for reorg completion ---> allow i...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Forcefully terminating lingering SSM and restarting on another management host

Customer largest production cluster PG1 had an incident on March 13. PG1 span over 2 ~ 3 DCs. There was a network failure between two DCs in the morning. VEMKD and SSM were running at different DCs. Customer tried to disable the app so they can re...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Kind of db2iauto for HADR

In the same way db2iauto starts instance once the server is rebooted, the HADR should restart also automatically. Actually, when server is rebooted, the instance is started but the HADR starts to be desynchronized.
over 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Read data by sourcing regardless of a local lim

Dear I want to explain the customer's request. Here is an execution server with a lim daemon. On this execution server, the customer wants to send queries to another cluster.(In this case, the LSF_LIM_PORT of both clusters is the same, because it ...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

PAW admin access with segregated security for each tab (Life Cycle Manager)

PAW admin access is required to use Life Cycle Manger Admin access grants permission to manage other features/databases etc. Our project has 60 instances in each environment with dedicated infra support team (Admins) Application Team manages...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration