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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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[Security and Access Control] /etc/init.d/ego status overiding default behavior - not according to standard, breaks monitoring and automation tool chain

The init.d script being rolled out with Symphony 7.1.0 is the same across all compute and management hosts. Running the script in its intended way with the status flag always results in the same message: -bash-4.1$ sudo service ego statusego servi...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Not under consideration

CATMAINT / ENFM REORG enhancement

CATMAINTs and ENFM REORGs causes major disruption if running alongside current workload. Continuous availabilty requirements means sign-off for planned DB2 outages (version upgrades or catalog reorgs) are very difficult to obtain/justify.
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Match360: Create UI to parameterize feature weightings (and any other code based configurations)

Match algorithm tuning and configuration requires code adjustments to adjust feature weightings that affect the customer record match scoring. Match tuning and configuration had been set as a business activity. The business users should not be goi...
over 2 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Global Timestamp

Currently in OpenPages there is only one timestamp for sign-off. I work at a global Japanese Bank and the timestamp is configured for the Tokyo Time zone. This means that if someone in New York Signs-off on a workpaper after lunch, it will show a ...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Infrastructure/Conformance 1 Not under consideration

Change behavior of option PARALLEL(0) for REORG TABLESPACE

We had a problem recently when a reorg of a tablespace with 100 partitions consumed far too much real storage. We ran the reorg with PARALLEL(0) and it choose to use 188 parallel tasks. That was probably OK at the beginning of the execution but no...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

New MDX by Design for PA: Stop MUN uniquely identify members.

In the new world of PA, for PAW or Exploration the system uses MDX and MUN (Member Unique Name). The MUN is essentially the pathway for the TM1 dimension element, following the parent child relationships to the root. In Planning Tools (unlike BI) ...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Optimize extraction of LOB data

CDC source agent currently extracts LOB values with the following type of queries:* SELECT "C5_CLOB" FROM "REPL"."STAB1" t WHERE ROWID = :v0.This means that for each extracted LOB there needs to be a single execution of a query.Small LOBs, which a...
about 7 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Lock data partition

Currently it is merely possible to lock a complete table by means of the "lock table" statement. However, for range partitioned tables, it would be beneficial to be able to lock a specific data partition. That is, a statement like: “lock data pa...
over 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

IDS 12.10 syspurge enhancement

Description: We are experiencing locking errors during IBM Informix Dynamic Server syspurge causing a failure to complete syspurge specifically with tables using interval fragmentation. We understand that currently IBM cannot guarantee that there...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Support longer passwords for standalone utilities using DB2

The standalone DB2 utilities of FTM SWIFT should allow using a password longer than 8 characters. This is required to use moden authentication means as pass phrases or pin/token. On z/OS, this implies support of JDBC type 4 connections. Relevant u...
almost 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Delivered