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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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Log offload task needs to be manually cancelled restarted after outage to tape

We are seeing situations when tape processing is down and a DB2 request to offload logs to tape is initiated using dynamic allocation, that offload task will hang and never be satisfied until the offload task is cancelled and re-driven manually. T...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Avoid new workload during Db2 Restart Light

In a data sharing environment a Db2 Restart Light was needed after an LPAR outage to remove retained locks and resolve indoubt units of recovery.The failing member was automatically restarted in light mode on one of the surviving LPARs, and showin...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Start and Stop WD for CP4D scripts to be added to the product

When managing Watson Discovery for Cloud Pak for Data, there are times when we need to restart the system. For example. hardware maintenance, planned outtage, disaster recovery, datacenter migration, etc. In such cases, currently, there is no offi...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Workflow Instance termination & start needs improvement

Using the workflow instances view to terminate workflow instances is not user-friendly. suggest the following improvements: Allow for search/filter and sort by Object Name and Workflow Version. If a user selects objects using the checkboxes, then ...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 4 Not under consideration

Free automatically allocated lock memory

Since Lock resource (memory) would be automatically allocated when Informix engine defect that it's not enough. But these memory will be existing forever once allocate, unless restart Informix engine. Could these automatically allocated memory cou...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

lsf.conf documentation should report which daemon(s) need restart

Every time an lsf.conf entry is recommended by Support, I have to turn around and ask which daemon (or daemons) need a restart, which causes delay. The developers already know what daemons are affected by the changes, please document which ones ne...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Delivered

Management by RBA Capture Utility of offline DB2 in a Sysplex

At this time if we configure all DB2 we have in a Sysplex in all RBA capture utility we have errors messages on systems where DB2s are down. In a Sysplex and Datasharing groups DB2s members and Single instance could move from LPAR to LPAR dependin...
11 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Deploy TI processes with PAW life cycle management

TI processes are an important part of any PA application and should be deployable without any downtime of the target environment at any time. In the current state of PA processes must be deployed entirely manually by copying .pro files and restart...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

provide Index status between CCR database and FAP to enable customer to decide if we need to reset the data publish

Currently there are many instances where the data is not fully published, especially when the new structures are published in controller, this leads to data consistency problem in report. So the users does not know when to reset the trickle publis...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Enable DATABASE_MEMORY change on WRITE SUSPEND database

We are using db2relocatedb to deploy test, dev, preprod environments from production images (disc snapshots). This happens multiple times a week (talking about multiple hundred databases). Most databases have DATABASE_MEMORY set to AUTOMATIC. Relo...
about 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration