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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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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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Additional Feature in Symphony existing commands

Is it possible to have some enhancement in our existing symphony commands like soamview session or soamview task where we can ask IBM to add more information related to job termination and Pending reasons like below examples . And Job submission t...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 3 Not under consideration

MR0427112852: QueryTimeout property cannot terminate a stored proedure on z/os platform

QueryTimeout property in JDBC Type 4 driver doesn't work for DB2 forZ/OS, when a stored procedure active for the thread.blockingReadConnectionTimeout is able to stop the stored procedure on db2for z/os, when timeout is reached. Unfortunately this ...
over 14 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

[SMC][RFE][CA-CIB] - Deploy symphony update

SMC could be able to deploy patch on manager. Manager should be able to deploy patch on SSM and compute
about 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 1 Planned for future release

DB2 should be enhanced in order to use a parmlib dataset to contain initialization parameters (ZPARMS), rather than requiring

DB2 should be enhanced in order to use a parmlib dataset to contain initialization parameters (ZPARMS), rather than requiring an assembly and link-edit of a load module to contain them.
over 14 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

DB2 IFCID fields too small to accomodate data

As described in PMR 46301,820,820 the following fileds in DB2 needs to be changed to handle binary overflow which is common on customer installation:- Number of getpage requests. F QBACGET- The number of requests to lock a resource. F QTXALOCK - T...
over 14 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

[HostFactory][RFE][PIMCO] Cloud GUI lack of requestor configuration

Hostfactory Cloud GUI lack of requestor configuration while there is service and providers
about 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Planned for future release

[HostFactory] Cloud GUI lack of searching function (PIMCO)

Currently, there is no search or filter feature for cloud host and request. There are more than 300 hosts and hundreds requests every day. Very inconvenience for users.
about 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Planned for future release

Alter IX / TS page size at individual partition level

For MSOR application: For very large TS / IX with thousands of partitions, deployed in a 24 x 7 environment, the restriction of having to alter page size at the TS / IX level rather than by individual partitions is unrealistic for customers. The c...
over 14 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Index-Only tables

request, xref MR1113081118 For a table where all columns are used in the primary index, allow only the index definition rather than having to define tablespace and indexspace, or have the table use an index access like process, rather than a table...
over 14 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 z/OS v10 - Change the ALTER native_SQL_proc REGENERATE statement to accept APRETAINDUP, APREUSE, and APCOMPARE options.

This change needs to be made so customers can REGENERATE NSPs in DB2 Version 10 for VSCR and potential CPU savings without changing access paths. Furthermore, the same reasons used to justify adding APRETAINDUP, APREUSE, and APCOMPARE options to t...
over 14 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration