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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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Change DB2_DATABASE_CF_MEMORY to automatic without having to stop the entire instance.

The client switched to the Db2 LUW PURESCALE solution for high availability, but noticed that some parameters, including DB2_DATABASE_CF_MEMORY, cause unavailability when changed. The client requests that this parameter be dynamic so as not to shu...
about 11 hours ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Submitted

Current Limitations of CP4D Role Management

Currently, although CP4D roles allow editing to add or remove functionalities, they are not recommended for user customization. This is because any changes made are reset to the default configuration whenever the zen-watcher pods are restarted. As...
5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Deposit some information about latch status in HVCOMMON to avoid Db2 abend

Db2 abended due to EOM in one of its threads (in this case an online REORG). The request is that some more information about thread status is saved in common storage (e.g. HVCOMMON) to help SSSC to cleanup the job and to avoid that it must take do...
8 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

Lower refresh interval of monitoring pages

I'm working with CP4D v5.2.1. When I open the software hub montioring page, refresh is limited to 10mins. We need an auto refresh to track progress more efficiently.The 10min window is far too long for monitoring pod restarts, etc.
14 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Moving to next binlog

Whenever the MySQL server/services is restarted abruptly, there is no entry present for "rotate to binlog" statement. As the CDC agent starts get to that binlog, it is unable to proceed forward due to the absence of this statement, the subscriptio...
about 1 month ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Create a function to set MTQ parameter NumberofThreadsTo Use manually in the prolog of a TI process then set it back to its normal value in the epilog

This would stop issues where high touch processes conflict with other processes causing issues such as nulptr errors. It would also alleviate the risk of hanging up the instance where 2 processes attempt to lock the same objects and ultimately a s...
22 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Ability to start/stop Db2 listener without instance restart

During unplanned or planned maintenance work on the database, we need to have the option to quickly block users from connecting remotely on the database. Especially we need to prevent users from implicitly activating the database. Our current work...
5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Request for CDC Restart from Specific Bookmark or Timestamp in IBM CDC

We would like to know if IBM CDC offers a feature to start Change Data Capture (CDC) from a specific bookmark position or from a particular date and time via the Management Console, similar to the start option provided by Attunity, which allows sp...
about 1 month ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

CCDC replication should be restarted when an unexpected error occurs.

We are suffering with an issue where CCDC replication stops for unknown reasons. It has been almost two years since we opened the case TS014238021, but we still don't know the cause. An APAR PH65595 has been opened for this issue, but no PTF has b...

Automatic restarts of TM1WEB service

When 100% of heap space is exhausted, TM1Web service is unavailable and only IBM Support or SRE team can restart the service to free some memory. It means we have to open a ticket to IBM Support each time the issue happens and the issue cannot be ...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted