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be able to add (and remove) new type of metadata

to manage other metadata that the ones already defined: LSF user extra limit & TTL, license quota, etc ... currently, we must update several scripts & conf files to add (or remove) other metadata type than the built-in ones.
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Planned for future release

provide a mechanism to avoid manually inserting hash code into thold.php and settings.php for new thold alerts to view details.

When we add our own thold alerts, we must add manually the hash code recorded into a mysql table into thold.php and settings.php scripts to be able to display details. Can you please redesign the code to avoid these steps ?
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Planned for future release

support 5 or more arguments in thold.php

To create versatile alerts, we sometimes needs more than 2 or 3 max arguments to set the alert. For ex, for a LSF server load alert, we should need clusterid, server hostgroup, load index, comparison operator, etc ....
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Planned for future release

in IPM 12, only specific ports should be requested to open at client firewall instead of complete range from 1025 - 65536 port range open for network traffic

The IBM WebSphere application team analysis revealed that some of the ports or TCP/UCP connections are being blocked, resulting in a page loading issue for the Product Master application. To resolve this issue, opening a specific list of ports bet...
11 months ago in Product Master 0 Planned for future release

Feature request to verify backups in parallel

Hello, The onbar backup verification process runs in serial and takes a long time to complete for large databases (60+ hours to complete for an 800GB database). It would be helpful if the backup verification process could run in parallel, similar ...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Planned for future release

DSNTIJRT need option to DISABLE GRANTs

When using DB2/RACF security you might have a requirement from your security auditors, that you don't perform any GRANT at all. This could be a general parameter in DB2OPT or a procedure specific option GRANTTO(NONE) in CFIGIN (both in the DSNTIJR...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Planned for future release

Ability to display Notifications upon Logon to the system

If administrators need to inform users of planned outages / send short term warnings that the system needs to go into a maintenance cycle - then Cognos currently does not offer any options to do so.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Enhancements to OQWT Query Advisor

We use OQWT advisors regularly for both reactive and more common proactive performance review The DSM tool seems to be working fine, although we really need the query and Access path advisors to work. One of my concerns with the advisors (OQWT (DS...
about 7 years ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Enable CLI that allows to modify resource groups' preference level for a consumer

IBM Spectrum Symphony product GUI allows users to choose more than one resource groups for a consumer and set their preference level to seek compute capacity when there is demand. However, there is no CLI (command Line interface) that allows users...
11 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

IIDR offical release for REHEL 8/9

Already RHEL 7.X announced end of support Q2 -2024 so need to upgrade the servers
almost 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Planned for future release