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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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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

Catalog command with comment string length 30 chars is too short

Catalog command with comment string limit of 30 chars is too short. The examples in the knowledge center document use longer strings.We use the string to contain our FQDN server names and often the limit enforces us to short names.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Classic CDC to Support column-level CodePage selection

I work at a financial institution where we process mainframe information in EBCDIC CodePage 037, 838, 930 and 937.Currently we plan to work around a CodePage limitation by generating four separate subscriptions; one for each EBCDIC CodePage we wan...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

IIDR Mapping Tables to Teradata target when columns are greater than 30 characters

The error message 'Message3037' Exception Text 'null'. is received when attempting to add a table to a subscription when the target table has a column name with the length greater than 30 characters.
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Implicit logged temp tables should use logged spaces listed in DBSPAETEMP

The documentation suggests that logged temp tables will be stored in any logged dbspaces listed in the DBSPACETEMP parameter/client environment variable. Yet when selecting from a view based on a union query, we find that the root dbspace is alway...
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 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...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Functionality already exists

Built-in functionality to create process dump

Sometime IBM support need dumps from Symphony processes for troubleshot. It could be usefull to have CLI, API and WEBGUI access to trigger a process dump. Command line example egosh createDump SD /tmp (which should create a dump of SD process and ...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 1 Not under consideration

Unblock a list of compute for all applications

Have the possibility to unblock a list of compute nodes for all applications (usefull when compute nodes have encounter an issue, resolved, that impacted a set or all applications of the grid)
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration

Windows 2016 docker container support

Support Windows server 2016 containers (it is the Socgen target) for Symphony workloads.
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 1 Not under consideration

Pyarrow v2.0 conda package for ppc64le

We are in immediate need of latest pyarrow version for ppc64le and we are looking for v2.0.Also we need a conda package ( NOT PIP) and will appreciate if this could be made available to us at the earliest. Having said this would like to follow up ...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4 1 Planned for future release