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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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Asynchronous index rebuild at restart

When an index rebuild is required at the restart time, it can depend on the connection of the first user accessing the table. If the connection is killed, the index rebuild need to redone. It would be smarter to let the rebuild complete even if th...
about 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Restart capability for failed subscriptions

Would like to see CDD Subscriptions restart automatically when there is a failure on the Target Datastore. Our configuration is IBM Mainframe DB2 => IBM InfoSphere CDD => Bluemix Cloudant. We have experienced failures when Bluemix Cloudant i...
about 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Add a command to remove a specific retained lock

Under current behavior in a DB2 Data Sharing environment, when a DB2 member crashes and is not able to restart, the application on the other members is stopped by retained locks.In our environment, for some specific applications due to the nature ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Let Physical Detach and Attach Operations on the same table run at the same time

Today there is no timeout on Detach Physical Phase and Attach alter cannot run on the same table at the same time as Detach alter. Some detach alters are taking over 20 hours to finish placing daily partitions at risk of not being created. Also th...
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

In a HDR cluster, be able to shut down the primary without triggering the auto-failover regardless DRAUTO setting and CM

In a HDR cluster, one should be able to shut down the primary instance without triggering the auto-failover regardless the setting of DRAUTO and the existence of connection managers. In DHL environment, there are scenarios that the primary instanc...
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

DQM Model Memory Governor

We have noticed that DQM allows unlimited memory usage which causes problems when you have a large report or multiple small reports running at the same time. We have seen dispatcher get stuck and the only way to fix them is with a restart. Other B...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

needs a solution for deadlock between multiple change streams

Please refer to the PMR 10350,69G,760----------------------------------------Customer would like to avoid a deadlock situations between multiple change streams when he started some subscriptions in test scenario of source server failure. Since IID...
over 7 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Parent-child not preserving loaded libraries in onCreateService with StandbyService

When using parent child with standbyServices, when parent yields, libraries are not preserved and need to be reloaded. This is due to Parent SI performing restart, so all tasks except one execute with regular execution time. But one task that is a...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Not under consideration

CDC Should Ignore Backout Processing For UOW That Are Not Subscribed

We were impacted by an NPS failure due to the Postmaster task failing. Postmaster restarted successfully. There is a known fix for this. After the restart we noticed a large log recovery lag (36 hours) due to a long-running UOW that had no commits...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow message brokers to auto-start on boot of Linux

Would like the MDM message brokers to be able to restart on their own after a reboot of a Linux server. Currently have to manually restart after reboot when patches are applied or server is shutdown. Recently switched from windows to Linux on AWS....
about 3 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration