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Browse archived DDL

Extend browse archive file utility to browse archived DDL (tables, indexes, views, stored procedures).
almost 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Optim Db2 LUW - LOAD support in IXF format when there are XML data type fields in the table.

Optim does not support to perform a LOAD process using IXF format when there are XML data type fields in the table. Note that IXF is a more robust/compact format to exchange data between Db2 databases. See cases: TS003467645 and TS003290043 (two d...
over 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

LSF Resource Connecter should allow start/stop of *existing* AWS VMs.

We have procedural limitations with creating new instances in AWS on-demand by LSF Resource Connector (RC) for security reasons. Our preference would be to create instances ahead of time and let LSF RC start and stop the instances based on demand....
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 3 Functionality already exists

RC_Account visibility in RTM Job Info fields

IBM LSF Resource Connector has gone through many enhancements, like job level RC_Account. However, this field is not visible in RTM. This new filed should be added in RTM job information.
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting / Operations/RTM 5 Not under consideration

Support NetApp StorageGrid

Company is migrating object storage from EMC ECS to NetApp StorageGrid.
over 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 2 Not under consideration

blaunch to handle resized jobs

In a dynamic cluster cloud environment, blaunch cannot handle resizing of the jobs. We are requesting for the addition and deletion of hosts from an LSF cluster with blaunch able to handle the network IO and exit with the return code from the job'...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 1 Not under consideration

Have launchTemplateId/Instance template for LSF Google Resource Connector work the same as if launching from Google cli/portal

Google LSF Resource Connector has the option to launch VMs based off Instance Template feature of GCP thru the launchTemplateId field in googleprov_templates.json. There is additional flexibility in being able to override settings defined in the I...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 0 Future consideration

Enable more dynamic tags in LSF resource connector

Currently in Resource connector only one dynamic tag called "RC_ACCOUNT" is enabled but we would like to have more such dynamic tags which can be used along with bsub command.Example;Current tag takes only " -P project_name" as a dynamic tag . But...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 1 Not under consideration

Provision summary report on data archival processing

An enhancement or a new menu is needed in Optim to generate and show a report on archival and deletion processing summary so far OR based on some filters. Below is the business case. Requirement : Customers have been using the Optim based archi...
almost 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Not under consideration

Extend backup device support to the S3 API

Extend backup device support to the S3 API so storage profiles can be used to send files to object storage devices.
almost 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration