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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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the Restart Required

In the case of Windows host, we must restart the host after the uninstall completes.If we don't, installation does not proceed. I understand we must restart to apply these changes in case of windows. But for customers, they feel pressured, restart...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

LSF is not starting correctly with LDAP duing node boots

Every time we reboot nodes LSF jobs will switch from RUN to PEND status. We have found knowledge base document that states using LDAP with LSF is a known issue. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSENRW_4.2.1/release_notes/known_issues.ht...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

lsfrestart command mbatchd parallel reconfig

ARM would like to see lsfrestart script have the option of running the mbatchd restart in parallel mode, possibly with a -p flag.
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Datastage 11.3 the connection from WAS to Engine ASBAgent is not made right after restart

We just upgraded to 11.3.1.2. We shut down WAS and Engine tiers for backup nightly. After restart, our first web service call always fails. It appears the connection from WAS to Engine ASBAgent is not made right after restart. but only right after...
over 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

[Security and Access Control][CE] [Security] - Symphony should immediately reflect changes in Active Directory

The current Active Directory behavior in Symphony 7.1 is flawed. Feedback from support is that the expected practice is after a new user or group is added to AD or an existing user is added to an existing group that the cluster should be restarted...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Delivered

[Workload Scheduling Policy] SOAM - Policy - Task scheduled to service instance under initialization instead of those ready to run tasks

The service has the logic to restart itself once memory utilization hits certain threshold. It returns a control code(1) when finishing a task, and upon this control code, SI is configured to restart itself. However, tasks are found to be dispatch...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 5.1 4 Delivered

DB2 is not able to force a LOAD application which is hung due to file lock issue on NFS file system

A LOAD operation hung due to not able to acquire lock on file on NFS file system, the LOAD operation stuck at "Setup phase" in the database, however we tried below commands, but either of them can terminate/force the hung LOAD operation off1. LOAD...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

HA for DB2/DPF using disk replication

Many challenges with node recovery. Current BP is to reboot all nodes in the cluster if any one fails. Many cases where db2 agent hangs on restart and requires a node reboot. Would prefer to see disk replication used for HA
almost 11 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

To reuse the original started SI if it's serving for the next task from other session, using the same servic type

When using proportional scheduling policy, we are seeing frequent resuffuling of slots amont sessions with the same service type, and SIs are being restarted frequently.
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Not under consideration

Change output from command GET DBM CFG

The output from the command 'get dbm cfg' without the option 'show detail' is misleading in that in shows the 'wrong' values for parameters that have been changed but needs an instance restart. It could be solved by changing the output to use the ...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration