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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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Disabling performance monitoring throughout the entire application.

When doing performance testing, we want to eliminate anything that could possibly affect performance. One recurring question is whether the application's internal performance monitoring has any adverse impact. Without a way to disable the applicat...
5 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Submitted

Enable rebind of packages after a reorg in Automation Tool

I want to use Automation Tool to reorganise a tablespace to materialise a change to a UTS. I will issue the ALTER TABLESPACE MAXPARTITIONS nnn statement during the working day, which will put the tablespace into the AREOR state. I have a job profi...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Outbound Transmissions Page - Please add filter option for "Transmission Definition" column.

Currently in FTM 3.0.5.4 and 3.0.5.5, on the Outbound Transmission page, the Transmission Definition column is not filterable. Several of the other columns are. The Transmission Definition column should be added to the filter options.
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Future consideration

UI hides reject codes for items accepted in review

When an item has been accepted in Review, the 'Rejects and Warnings' and 'Total Validation count' has IQA result removed When an item is flagged as having "Image too dark" issues, the 'Rejects and Warnings' and 'Total Validation count' values in t...
9 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Submitted

OpenShift Secrets can be viewed as clear text on pods

Credentials setup as OpenShift secrets are readable in clear text on pods, e.g. /startup/variables on Gateway/BR/Transaction pods, /opt/ibm/wlp/usr/servers/defaultServer/variables/ on liberty pods, and /secrets/db2instancepwd/ on database pods. We...
over 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0

Automation Tool incorrectly building RUNSTAT jobs when TS has NPSI being RUNSTAT

Unfortunately the product has been generating jobs incorrectly from the getgo for RUNSTATS. When using load balancing across 20 jobs, the partitions should be spread across the 20 jobs. This works when the NPSI is not having RUNSTATS. When the NPS...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Include mask for DFSPARM

One of our customers working with REORG jobs built using Automation tool 4.3 have normally problems of "Sort Capacity exceeded". In order to solve this problem, our customer is using a customized skeleton HAAREORJ with syntaax: //DFSPARM DD * OPTI...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support SCOPE PENDING option in REBUILD utility

The SCOPE PENDING option has been available in the REBUILD INDEX DB2 utility. In the DB2 Automation Tool product this option cannot be specified.
over 1 year ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

For RPN TS, each partition reorged need a separate IC tape drive, need a way to limit the number of tape drives per iteration of REORG for the IC

If 65 partitions of a RPN with NPSIs are being reorg at the same time, 65 IC tape drives would be required. That is excessive and probably all shops can't support that. Even when no NPSIs, this would be a problem. HAA generates LISTPARTS 4096 when...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Ability to exclude packages from the rebind utility

Currently, rebind statements are generated based on what objects have been runstats'd -when included with a RUNSTATS utility profile- or everything -when only using the REBIND utility in the profile-. However, this also includes packages that are ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration