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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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zOS DB2 support for EDITPROC and FIELDPROC for I306 log records.

DB2 for zOS does not support EDITPROC and FIELDPROC automatically like it supports compression and other conversions for I306 records. We have customers who ask for this and we can't support this feature but apparently others can through USERMODs ...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

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

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

FR556: More granular IRLMRWT

By default, SAP customers run with fairly high values for IRLMRWT like 5 or 10 minutes because SAP applications usually prefer waiting longer rather than having timeouts too early. In general, this works well. However, there are cases in which cer...
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

Allow to disable plugin related requests through HostFactory Rest Api and Symphony GUI

JPMC currently uses Symphony 7.3.1. We intend to allow user to use HostFactory Rest API, from e.g. on-prem to Symphony cluster on AWS. We happen to see Symphony 7.3.2, which we intend to upgrade to later, supports HostFactory plugin related reques...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Delivered

Email disable for mbatchd and enable for sbatchd

Currently , there is no way to seperately disable mbatchd emails v/s sbatchd emails. Means. We have set email set to N in lsf.conf , so that by default job report emails are not sent. However some users who need email can set in their environment ...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered

Latency aware query offload decision

BdB has 2 active Accelerators with several replicated tables (meaning 2 subscriptions on CDC z/OS side). BdB already has scripts to synchronize the Load process in both Accelerators, but the replication may have different latencies. When a query o...
about 11 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered
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In Export Jobs, add the ability to specify an output filename for files written to a FTP folder

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Currently in an Export Job, there is no way to specify an output filename for files written to an FTP folder and instead they all get created with the same name - catalog.out. This means in order to distinguish the different files produced by diff...
over 5 years ago in Product Master 1 Delivered

Unlink sheet Without Msg box

I have a detailed P&L report whereby I need to use VBA macro to cycle through a list of 20 or so elements to create a P&L report for each department. As I am using Quick report, the macro will create a new tab with the new department code,...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Delivered

Support of ICF-catalogs on target vols when source of subsystem cloning is SLB RFE 83425

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=83425 To use SLBs for backup/recovery it's neccessary to place the ICF-catalogs on the same volumes as DB2-data. But so far cloning-tool doesn't support handling of ICF-cata...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 2 Delivered