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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Monitor DB2 Client

Setup: Currently we have a db2 client installed on the NFS and mounted on all of our app servers. A soft link created from app server home path to the db2profile NFA to access the client from app servers. Pain point: More than 800+ Nodes and 2000+...
over 2 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Allow Db2 ESAF interface with IMS to use PSB in place of loadmodule

Currently when a thread is created between IMS->Db2 the Db2 ESAF exit uses the Load module name to link to a plan name of the same name (or another name if using RTT load module). In a test environment there may be a scenario where sever...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow Db2 ESAF interface with IMS to use PSB in place of loadmodule

Currently when a thread is created between IMS->Db2 the Db2 ESAF exit uses the Load module name to link to a plan name of the same name (or another name if using RTT load module). In a test environment there may be a scenario where several diff...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Ability to search email distribution lists for scheduled reports

It would be great if users who scheduled distributed reports could search for email addresses. A recent scenario, we had a student worker who was on a distribution email list, that student left and went to another department. The student still had...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove Requirement for inserting stored procedures

The requirement for gaining access to the permissions to have the product insert the stored procedures is an issue for us. It would be very good to remove this requirement and not require the use of stored procedures.
about 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Not under consideration

Victimization of unused compression dictionaries from DBHEAP(RIMS)

Compression and Expansion dictionaries for each object (table, index) remain in memory until database deactivation time. This is problematic because enough DBHEAP must be allocated to host a compression/expansion dictionary for EACH object that is...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Remove Linux root privileges(Elevated access) for IBM Symphony /Spectrum process

Currently IBM Symphony (including Spectrum , SMC, ) requires Linux root level access (egosetsudoers.sh) to run this product in EGO_Simplified_WEM=No This elevated access for symphony processes is flagged as security risk for all our infrastructure...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Deletion of Empty PBG Partitions with no UTUT access after switch phase

When removing empty partitions in a PBG tablespace after the switch phase of the reorg, the space is put into UTUT access, which causes -904 00C90082 to be returned to the application.
about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

To allow configurable User Actions in MER queues

PBB user does not want few standard User Actions on the MER Queues like REDIRECT, UNDOREDIRECT, and RETRYROUTING. To enable configurable User Actions in FTM. For example, delete access to 'Redirect' User action on the MER Queues As per IBM support...
over 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration

Custom folders should be included in OPEN and SAVE dialog boxes...

If you are customizing a cognos analytics portal and remove the teamfolder to simplify the handling for the enduser (Extensions), there is a problem with accessing things between two customfolders. Example: Create a Reportview in one cutomfolder...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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