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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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performance improvement for specific replication instance

Need improve deleting synchronization performance for big table with wide unique key column: We see latency keep increasing to 2 hours when batch deleting happen on big table which has ~1 billion rows and unique key includes 11 columns. More detai...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

Add AMI name regexe Option into Symphony HostFactory AWS template

Currently, Our AMI name alias remain constant for successive iterations such as symphony-worker-ami-<time stamp> as AMI version control. We request IBM can add option by providing AMI name instead of static imageID. Symphony HostFactory can ...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Enhancement to enable configurable limits on LIM message queue

The IBM Spectrum Symphony product currently sets a default LIM message queue limit of 10,000. Under high workload demands with aggressive scale-in/out requirements, this limit is sometimes exceeded, leading to missed requests and performance degra...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Under review

Use certified hashing function bcrypt/Argon2 in users.xml

Symphony 7.3.2 uses AES-128 encryption for the passwords storage in the local users.xml file, which is not compliant with Citi Cryptography Standard. Only below hashing algorithms are approved for passwords hashing. Citi requests IBM to use bcrypt...
5 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Automatically perform actions when synchronisation is broken on DataGate

In Data Gate, every time someone executes a utility not supported by the product (such as a LOAD without LOG or a schema change in the table) the synchronisation is broken.In these cases, we have to redo an initial load. In other products such as ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

Enable Global Capacity Limits in HostFactory with Configurable Requestor-Level Control

Background: The CVA environment comprises of two application types: Under /cva parent Consumer – must run exclusively on on-demand instances. Under /cvaSpot parent Consumer – can run workload on both on-demand and spot instances. To support this a...
3 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0

We need to know if the session/task is from SMC

We are working to use SMC (Symphony MultiCluster). Since there is no database schema change, we can't tell if the session/task is from SMC. We created TS019242798 and know there is global id in PERF soamdb temp file (session_history/task_attribute...
7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Not under consideration

Add AWS RDS for Db2 as a target database for Data Gate on Cloud

Data Gate on cloud available at AWS only syncronize data for Db2 z/OS to a Db2 Warehouse SaaS. The idea is to add AWS RDS Db2 as an target database.
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 1 Not under consideration

Let GUI create ultra large instance

At the present time CP4D GUI only allow to create datagate instances with maximum of 32CPU + 32Gi of RAM. 32Gi may be insuffisant in case of large workload. If we need to go further we need to first create instance and then upgrade custom ressourc...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

1 Character Password

Admin password can be changed to 1 chacter password from GUi need RFE to port EGO_DISABLE_ADMIN_ACCESS parameter in PAM+default plugin
8 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Not under consideration