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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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Please certify the product IBM Data Replication IMS for z/OS Remote Source to run on zCX and/or Red Hat Openshift

We’ve achieved excellent results with the Db2 for Remote Source product, as it has significantly reduced CPU usage on the mainframe—an area where traditional data replication has historically been one of the top resource consumers. With the introd...
2 months ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Integrate zAI analysis to use SQL-DI

SQL-DI is great at finding commonalties, similarities and possibly predicting values, It might be a good idea to feed zAI collected data into SQL-DI to assess the calculated values and choose and compare access paths chosen with host variable valu...
26 days ago in IBM SQL Data Insights Pro 0 Submitted

Future roadmap on the Database

I would appreciate it if you could help me with the following inquiries: 1) Will OpenPages support RDS Oracle DB for future releases in On-Prem environments? If so, what will be the supported DB versions? 2) Currently, the supported version of Ora...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Infrastructure/Conformance 2 Not under consideration

Suppress DD-level accounting information in the SMF type 30 EXCP section for individual DDs.

We found that E-Private SP230 Key0 storage growth was occurred in IIDR Classc Capture service. It was due to SMF type 30 EXCP information at DD name dynamic allocation. Our case was 100 thousand DD Dynamic allocation for IMS OLDS open. . Then, I'...
about 6 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Segregate stored files

OpenPages should segregate systems files from user uploaded files in the file system.
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Infrastructure/Conformance 2 Under review

Support for Oracle RDS on AWS as a platform for the database for Standalone/Traditional On-Premise

Oracle RDS on AWS is fully managed by Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). Common database management tasks, such as hardware provisioning, software patching, setup, configuration, or backups are included in the service.
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Infrastructure/Conformance 2 Planned for future release

High Availability feature using the InfoSphere CDC for z/OS failover for IMS

We are a 24x7 IMSPlex site including workload balancing across lpars. We have introduced CDC for IMS, replicating data from critical 24x7 business applications. Presently we do not take any outage for these business applications. When making c...
about 1 year ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 0 Under review

Enable OpenPages on CentOS and Ubuntu Linux

We'd like to see support for additional Linux distributions but in particular, CentOS and Ubuntu. This is useful as it will enable a greater, more cost effective, deployment choices across a broader range of cloud hosting platforms.
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Infrastructure/Conformance 5 Not under consideration

Encryption of File Attachments

Files attached to objects in OpenPages may contain sensitive information and requires OpenPages to support encryption / decryption of these files. This request was intended in the existing idea OPP-I-278 (Support for Encryption of Files / Encrypte...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Infrastructure/Conformance 2 Future consideration

IBM OpenPages Support for IBM Cloud Object Storage is required

IBM OpenPages currently supports SAN and NAS for document storage, but these systems have limitations. SAN is only supported out-of-the-box in a single server configuration, while NAS storage cannot be expanded without migrating the entire volume ...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Infrastructure/Conformance 2 Planned for future release