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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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Implement ability to force terminate PAfE executions on TM1 Server

In certain situations, we have observed that PAfE executions cannot be cancelled through TM1Top or through the CancelOperation method within REST API. These threads subsequently block dimension updates (READ locks prevent all other WRITE actions, ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow configuration to abort Db2 restore if tablespace errors occur

Today, Db2 Restore can continue with a subset of tablespaces if e.g. same tablespaces fail to acquire containers. In the end of roll forward completes, but some tablespaces did not complete and remain in 'storage definition pending' and need to ha...
about 5 years ago in Db2 5 Delivered

Auto restart of CDC subscription upon a failure on Kafka target

The CDC kafka connector dies whenever a partition leadership changes for a topic. This is an ongoing function of Kafka and could happen during•Rolling broker restarts (to upgrade or update a config value)•A change of controller•Normal cluste...
over 7 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Planned for future release

Reorg Index materialization

For REORG INDEX pending alter materialization, the utility performs a DRAIN ALL on the target index before starting the SWITCH phase, and then relies on DDL/Dependency logic to invalidate all the affected plans/packages/DSC...etc in the middle of ...
12 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Excessive DBHEAP by BLU compression dictionaries

In current design, when SQL statement accesses a table, the compression and expansion dictionaries of that table will be read into DBHEAP and kept there until database deactivation. For column-based table, the memory consumption may up to 100MB. i...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 5 Functionality already exists

Allow persistent subscriptions to reconnect when there has been a recoverable database connection error

We have been receiving SQL connection error messages on our DB2 LUW source instances that include the text: "SQLSTATE 08506: A connection failed but has been re-established.". Support has indicated that this is functioning as designed and persiste...
about 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

AD - Support for GSAM file usage

My customer programs use GSAM for file access so that programs can use checkpoint restart. The files accessed via GSAM are not shown as files on the call-graph. Nor are they shown as IMS databses. Same as the Ideas below. https://ideas.ibm.com/ide...
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas 0 Under review

Improve INDOUBT thread processing in two-phase commit scenario

Recently we had a pretty severe production outage on an 8-way data sharing group. After resolution of the root cause, WAS and Db2 z were quite slow in recovery. Following the crash, there were dozens of indoubt threads and lots of retained locks a...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Ability to archive standby - backup and restore(RIMS)

Jill,Please consider this email as a formal request for enhancement to DB2.Verizon needs the capability to do a DB2 online backup of an HADR standby database, along with a subsequent restore of the database that maintains the database as an HADR s...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Improve reliability of re-run functionality

After a server crash, current report runs must be restarted with the re-run functionality with users credentials. So the run once functionality of a schedule does not help, because it uses admin credentials. In some cases the re-run functionality ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration