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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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Extend time period that historical run time is tracked for fairshare

We use historical run time as the main component of fairshare to determine job priority and ensure that users receive the appropriate amount of run time on our clusters. The current behavior in LSF with respect to historical run time is that any t...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Timeout retry logic for ADBTEP2 when driven with CM BATCH

as outcome from an AOC workshop : customer experiences sometimes timeouts when running CM BATCH driven ADBTEP2 worklist executions. These timeouts make the WSL execution fail and leaves the change process unfinished. It takes time to identify and ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Delivered

badmin mbdrestart -p customization

Hello, By default, badmin mbdrestart is restarting the whole mbatchd daemon. But most of the time, we need badmin mbdrestart -p. Is it possible to set a parameter that can change this behaviour ? For example, it's more practical to launch badmin m...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Cross-Invalidation due to pcloset/p-lock negotiation avoidance

Problem Statement / Pain points : Whenever there is no R/W activity and PCLOSET threshold is reached, pagesets SWITCH OUT of GBP dependency and the pages in our Bufferpools are cross-invalidated . Thereafter when R/W starts again, pagesets SWITCH ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Some SQL could trigger the HADR replay-only window, and terminate the connection of the read only appplicationin the standby

SPDB use blow SQL in one of the application. those SQL could trigger the HADR replay-only window, and terminate the connection ot eh read only applicaiton in the standby side. drop table、create table(include PARTITION BY RANGE)、drop indexã...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 1 Delivered

DataStage resource tracker should be off by default

By default, the resource_tracker process is on for Linux and AIX customers, however, in newer versions of the software it ends up generating large numbers of hung processes that don't go away even when you restart the DataStage engine (see referen...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 2 Delivered

Forcefully terminating lingering SSM and restarting on another management host

Customer largest production cluster PG1 had an incident on March 13. PG1 span over 2 ~ 3 DCs. There was a network failure between two DCs in the morning. VEMKD and SSM were running at different DCs. Customer tried to disable the app so they can re...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 2 Delivered

SD crash during port scan

During our vulnerability scan, SD process crash and don't take any more jobs until we restart it. We need to add some protection mechanism to avoid crashing process.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2 2 Delivered

Add heartbeat and restarting for plc java process

Currently, plc hang without any error or warning message. we request to add heartbeat and restarting for plc java processes.
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

Auto-Recovery of Hadoop Integration on Reboot

auto-restart capability for the services in the Hadoop addon( the Hadoop /Spark connectivity from Watson studio will be broken once this service stops. According to our experience this connector crashes often and it can’t recover itself without ma...
about 6 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Delivered