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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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License Scheduler - Minimum Preemption Time

It's been observed when the license scheduler preempts a job to free up license resources, the job can occasionally be resumed within 1-2 seconds if license features are freed up during that time. This leads to behavior where processes do not prop...
4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 3 Functionality already exists

Turn on reclaimable storage without dropping/recreating the tablespaces

After a migration from db2 9.5 to 10.1, several days passed, and we reached the maximum size of a DMS tablespace of 4K. We moved one table to a different tablespace, but still noticed that the free pages were equal to 0. We tried to execute the al...
over 10 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

Improve the VPCACHE memory manage

The VPCACHE resource having the option to be DYNAMIC or STATIC. At the documentation, the DYNAMIC option says: " You can set the mode to DYNAMIC to allow the size of each private memory cache to increase or decrease automatically based on the work...
7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

PAW Documentation

We need to justify PAW's infrastructure and security requirement due to its super complicated infrastructure requirement, most IT department from mega-size companies to SME cannot understand how PAW actually work and approve the PAW's infrastructu...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Consolidate free space across entire chunk or dbspace

I suggest a repack-like tool which consolidates free space in an entire chunk or dbspace in order to get few, big enough, free spaces to use efficiently. Being able to do so online and with little blocking is desirable
over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Default sort for fields 'Size' and 'Last Updated' in Drive Explorer

When in Drive Explorer, upon first selecting to sort on fields 'Size' and 'Last Updated', can the first sort be largest to smallest (Size), and latest to oldest (Last Updated) set as the default. For large folders, it can take some time for the so...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

To view file system usage on IDAA on Z in the Admin GUI

Whenever we get an alert that file system is full we have to raise a case with IBM and have to join a webex and open a putty session and ask IBM to check the current usage and most of the times it automatically gets cleared . Wanted to see if the ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics SSO documentation redo

Fix or communicate the proper and complete configuration for Single Sign On and Image browsing in Cognos 11. Especially using the Cognosisapi.dll and what the configuration needs to be to get this to work. There's been ~2800 hits in the CogNoise w...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Clearer Guideline for free account user and student user

I am from IBM Managed Escalation team. We receive a lot of escalation from student SPSS user and free account user about SPSS subscription not working and account issue, which they could be able to find the answers to easily from FAQ or SPSS docum...
10 months ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Submitted

Showing allocated slots under resourcegroups get method in EGO Rest API

currently for get /ego/v1/resourcegroups/{groupName} , we get response: { "name": "ComputeHosts" , "type": "Dynamic" , "resourcerequirement": "select(rg==ComputeHosts)" , "totalslots": 32 , "numhosts": 2 } it should also shows “allocatedslots” , c...
10 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Delivered