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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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Provide value for MAXTEMPS parm in percentage of total dasd space and create 2 separated options for sort and dgtt workfiles

The introduction of new parameter MAXTEMPS, to avoid the situation where one task monopolize all temporary tablespaces space, with only an absolute space value as an option leaks flexibility. 1) We need to have two parameters, one for sort areas a...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

CONCURRENTACCESSRESOLUTION (USECURRENTLYCOMMITTED) - missing UPDATE support

For a new application we decided to use BIND option "CONCURRENTACCESSRESOLUTION(USECURRENTLYCOMMITTED)". In this case we didn't expected to run into a timeout for a SELECT statement, but received the following error: DSNT408I SQLCODE = -911, ERROR...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Prompt customer need to reduce prune interval

In a busy Q Rep env with many bi-di Q subs, there may lots of P2PNORECAPTURE signal insert into IBMQREP_SIGNAL control table by Q Apply program. As per design, Q Capture delete up to 10000 rows at a time for one prune interval. When the average P2...
almost 5 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Is a defect

Reports pdf and excel needs to be WCA compliant

Reports pdf and excel needs to be WCA compliant
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Selector Properties: Allow Access to +/-

Allow a Modeler to define whether the expand and contract (+/-) in a selector are available for the users.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change REST API Error Messages So That They Reflect Security Access

When a user does not have access to an object the REST API returns an error that the object does not exist. This is confusing and makes troubleshooting difficult. The API should return an Access Denied error if there is no security access.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

fencing agent handle promptly and avoid server reboot when it noticed minor lib changes at OS end

Dear IBM Thank you much for such great imitative on HA Auto failover feature on DB2 LUW. We have implemented PACEMAKER with fencing technology on huge number of DB2 servers. Following are the challenges which needs to be addressed and improve the ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Affinity support for windows compute servers

We have a mixed Linux/Windows cluster. Unfortunately the affinity string in the resource requirement is not supported on Windows. This leads to several problems: 1. jobs with affinity settings will not be dispatched to windows nodes 2. less perfor...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

Enhance advanced dispatcher routing to allow for AdHoc/Non-Core reports to be routed differently to "Approved" reports.

This would be useful, as it would allow the organisation to ensure efficient execution of "approved" reports (possibly driven by an administrative flag in the product) to dedicated resources, whereas other reports would be routed to a default rout...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Future consideration

When a Benchmark job fails It would be nice to see the bsub used to submit the job

We can manually construct the actual bsub, but it would be nice to be able to cut and paste it when editing the Benchmark job so we can test that it actually will work. In one case we were getting "Queue Permission Errors" and it having that bsub ...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 2 Not under consideration