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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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WLM monitor and control total private sortheap usage

Concurrent private sortheap heavy queries run out of system memory and cause systems reboot. ISAS 7700 environment with DB2 v10.1 FP4 on AIX. There are 16 physical nodes running 122 database partitions. The catalog node and coordinator are on one ...
about 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

SQLTable() does not like escape sequences in catalog name parameter

My application uses the IBM Informix ODBC driver.Issue with respect to ODBC call SQLTables.As per ODBC specifications for SQLTables, the catalogname can have escape sequences ('\').Say I have a database: db_en. In my call to SQLTables,char dbname[...
almost 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Easier management of DB2 for z/OS DSNWLMJ java environment parameters

I have a suggestion for the file created by DSNTIJMV step DSNTIJJ. The JAVAENV file is created as a separate flat file for each ssidWLMJ job created. If this was a PDS named DSN!!0.JAVAENV(DSNWLMJ), one file would contain all the java environment ...
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Temporal Database for DB2 Configuration parameters and catalog information

With the New Feature of Temporal Database , It may be possible to keep System Configuration information - like Instance ,configuration Database configuration , along with snapshot information if possible for performace audit , analysis etc
over 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enable the Scheduler Debug to Run Continually and Provide JSON Output via 'badmin' Standard Output

Currently the Scheduler debug must be written to a file, and the scheduler debug information is not easily accessible through the management CLI. What would be better would be to have an MBD parameter to enable all the time as is done with 'badmin...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

RTM's gridparams binary misses many 'bparams -l -a' options

It's important for cross cluster auditing that the RTM system includes all 'bparams -l -a' output. Today, there are several of these options that are not captured making the auditing of cluster configuration via RTM incomplete. Having written the...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Parameter needed to block non-LSF hosts.

A lot of chatter on Lim logs due to non-LSF Windows hosts -- example messages below : --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[‎04/‎02/‎2016 16:33] Walter McCollom: eb 4 22:02:43 2016 18803 4 1.2.10 va...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Competitive Barometer to assess the digital competitiveness of IBM's offerings compared to the top 4-6 competitors in the market using WDS.

Automate the IBM offerings comparison with our competitors generating insights on various parameters like if trial version is available, how is the purchase and provisioning process, Extract quickly the product functional features from the respect...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

More options to the bias format in query parameters

Our project would quite certainly benefit from using the bias parameter in querys: rather that using a hard filter based on some metadata value, we would like to weigh some metadata values more in certain cases. However, our metadata values are mo...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Prompt API - Tree prompt support required.

Customer is using the new Prompt API with a tree control. They need to use setValues() to add specific values to a control and it does not work properly. setValues() rather picks all selected values instead of specific ones. getValues(true) does n...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration