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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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 VEMKD Behavior when unable to access vemkd/container/event file

After receiving RFE 145547 (patch build 563255), there was an occurrence where VEMKD continually restarted due to not being able to access the $EGO_CONFDIR/../../kernel/work/vemkd/container/event file. I'm requesting a similar patch to RFE 145547 ...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 2 Not under consideration

Azure SQLMI Target - Support for "redirect" connection type

IBM CDC replication for Azure SQLMI target currently does not support "redirect" connection type. According to Microsoft documentation, redirect connection type is recommended for Azure SQLMI database connection in order to maintain low latency an...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Is a defect

Info Server TFS integration with multiple repositories

We would like the ability to integrate with multiple TFS repositories from our DataStage servers.
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Job Preemption fails for LSF host(group) based slot limit

LSF based job preemption doesn't work when hitting host/host-group based CPU slot limits.The reason cited by IBM is that in LSF, currently, the system counts the no. of CPU slots for preempted/suspended jobs towards respecting the limit. This is n...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Optim z/OS Install CLIST maintain proper buffer pools

I would like to suggest that the installation panels for Optim be changed to allow for separate bufferpools to be entered and retained for tablespaces with 4K and 8K page sizes. Currently you enter a buffer pool for tablespaces and another for ind...
over 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Completely drop storage of all data and index partitions with truncate table command

I just truncated 2 huge tables, after "alter table extent size nnnn".. It took a while for the storage to come down to new extent size, but only table partition shrunk. Index partitions was unaffected, still huge.
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Request for a parameter in DB2 z/OS equivalent to the parameter IGNOREWARNINGS available in DB2 LUW into db2cli.ini file.

An SQL stmt accessing DB2 z/OS 10.1, via ODBC, receives a code +354; such a code produces an error inside the application.The following is the SQL stmt that reproduces the problem, run via a bach job accessing DB2 via ODBC:printf("DSN8OIVP SQLExec...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow opening Microsoft Office files directly from OpenPages when the Protocol is https

Opening Microsoft Office files directly from OpenPages is very useful for the user to avoid downloading files for updating. In some installations, for security reasons, it is mandatory to implement the https protocol, which is currently not compa...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Functionality already exists

Improve DB2 messages(etc DSNB601I)

A message indicating a situation in which SQL can not be executed is an information message.If this is an error message, the system administrator can easily find the error.For example, a DSNB601I message indicating that the buffer pool is full.
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance slowly changing dimension stage to full bi temporal join

Enhance the functionality of the stage "Slowly changing dimension" to a bi temporal functionality like the time travel feature from DB2. A typical use case in every DWH or data lake project is to store all versions of the data which you get from y...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration