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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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DBA needs control over Jobs from Automatic Maintenance

We recently had an outage due to automatic maintenance - reorg on a table to reclaim extents. Application A (db2hmon) was running a reorg reclaim on a table and Application B which was already connected to the database and was running a job, as a ...
about 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic history configuration

To switch current history configurations one has to restart NPS system which takes a large amount of time on big systems.
almost 5 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 1 Future consideration

All personal settings (incl. tile/list view setting welcomepage) should be stored in Content Store

In the recent section within the welcome page I personally like the list view more than the tile view. In some environments users experience problems since these personal settings return to it's original default state (the tile view) after restart...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Identify when all members of a Data Sharing Group are up and operational

After a crash or hard down, Db2 will perform its recovery processing including GRECP and LPL processing. There are external systems (e.g. CICS, MQ, etc.) that are dependent on all members in the data-sharing group to be fully up and operational an...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Link FLA messages to auto recovery task id

We did a large GRECP recovery test with around 68.000 GBP dependend objects. After restart and the automatic GRECP recovery we see a lot of DSNI025I, DSNI026I, DSNI027I, DSNI028I and DSNI029I messages as expected, but they have no correlation to t...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

db2start of a running instance should reload/restart configuration without interruption of current sessions

Sometimes dbm configuration changes are not active immediately and require a full instance restart. E.g. adding an SSL port and config updates of the db catalog changes in SYS*_GROUP ... It would be great, if a db2start command is issued while the...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

Config for the server to refuse to start if shared memory segments do not use huge pages.

When shared memory segments are not using huge pages there can be performance impact I would like an option for the engine to abort startup similar to FULL_DISK_INIT=0 if huge pages cannot be used for shared memory segments. Scenario: sysmaster sy...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Enable rolling restarts of SDC as a standard pattern.

Currently, there are too many restarts of the SDC and all the SDC's dependent on the change in the deployment need to be restarted. Lets enable the restats to happen in a rolling manner, one SDC at a time. This capability is kind of available in a...
9 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Enable self-service deployment of new JARs, JKS and custom libraries without requiring NFS or S3 buckets and without requiring SDC restarts

Very often users want to add new jars or have their own java key stores. Currently, these are done administratively and that too requires an S3 or NFS location and then requires a restart of the data collector. This involves engaging the administr...
9 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

COMMIT NOWAIT

COMMIT NOWAIT could be used to accelerate commit processing (releasing locks while log data not yet written to disk nor transferred to HADR standby) . There are applications that know how to restart their database transaction in case the transacti...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration