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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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[Cluster Management] Allow new servers joining the cluster in "closed" status

We need to have a way to control the status of the servers just joined a cluster. Currently new servers join the cluster in "open" status which can start to run jobs right away. We need an option to allow servers joining the cluster but in "closed...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Delivered

Ubuntu 18.04TLS Support on IBM DB2

Ubuntu 18.04TLS is not supported currently on any of the Db2 streams. Ubuntu 16 LTS has end of support in April 2021. With dependency on IBM DB2, we are unable to upgrade those client environments to Ubuntu 18LTS putting the production environment...
about 4 years ago in Db2 11 Delivered

CPU Affinity and Restricting LSF jobs

I am launching jobs on a two socket server each with fourteen cores. Job 1 is using core1/socket1 and job 2 is using core2/socket2 each in exclusive mode. Since both sockets are being used in exclusive mode and since both sockets are in use no add...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Add Support for MongoDB SSL ports

Provide the ability to support MongoDB SSl port configuration. SSl support needs to be added MongoDB ports. This is a requirement for some customers.
about 4 years ago in Watson Query 1 Delivered

support for CPATH for all SSL communication

Support for CAPATH for all SSL communication - enable certificate chains to be used for all PS components when SSL is used.
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Delivered

DataStage resource tracker should be off by default

By default, the resource_tracker process is on for Linux and AIX customers, however, in newer versions of the software it ends up generating large numbers of hung processes that don't go away even when you restart the DataStage engine (see referen...
about 8 years ago in DataStage 2 Delivered

GEN CREATE TABLE..MEMBER CLUSTER

A GEN CREATE TABLE with implicit TABLESPACE creation does not consider MEMBER CLUSTER.
about 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Delivered

Feasibility of multihome Management hosts to support different MTU on network.

We would like IBM to certify below solution for supporting differnet MTU with multiple network cards on Management hosts and different sets of compute hosts where one set of comput hosts has 1500MTU setup and another set of compute hosts has 9000M...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Delivered

Confirmation Message Needed in ISPF When a QM Profile is Updated (or Not)

When using the ISPF interface of Query Monitor to update a QM profile, it is currently very difficult for a user to determine whether the profile was actually updated (and saved) or not as a result of their actions. The only indication that the us...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 1 Delivered

DB2 PROFILE Table - Remove Implicit Queueing

MONITOR THREADS using an EXCEPTION attributes have a built-in implicit queuing mechanism which we would like to get rid of. For example, an AUTHID MONITOR THREADS EXCEPTION profile with an ATTRIBUTE2 value of 10 will let 10 DBATs with the same AUT...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered