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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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IMS Rep: maintain/reset error status for subscriptions

There have been times when a subscription had an error that resulted in the subscription stopping, but also resulted in the started task crashing. When automation restarts the task, the errored subscription is now in an "inactive" status, in spite...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

Enhance QREP peer-to-peer configuration

Currently most of the customer implementation of QREP is using 'unidirectional replication configuration' even the customer has need of bi-directional replication requirements. Normally applications occur on the source site only, the target tables...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Need the ability to define default values for data exception handling

This is for Classic CDC for z/OS V11.3. Currently, replication will fail if it hits a data exception error such as blanks in a numeric field. We do not want replication to end on this type of scenario. There is a parameter, CSDATAVALIDATEACT that ...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

MDM Inspector support for "<>" characters in user passwords

We would like the MDM system, and Inspector specifically, to support user passwords that contain the less than < and greater than > characters.
over 7 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Support SQL Server Clusters for InfoSphere repositories

My customer is using SQL Server Clusters and wants to be able to use them for the InfoSphere repositories... i.e. xmeta, xmetasr, iadb, srdb, esdb, dsodb.
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add 32-bit (x86) OS support to LSF 10

I would like to ask for 32-bit (x86) Linux operating system support added to LSF 10.1 and beyond.
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Ephemeral port range can be adjusted for FAM

The customer system need to use the firewall among each host node due to their security reason. Instead of the solution Stop firewalld, the random port ascd of the ephemeral port(Linux 32768-6100) on all nodes is listening for FAM connection shoul...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 3 Not under consideration

CDC should show the hostname which the user is already connect to datastore from.

In CDC management console, when "Mutiuser Configuration" is enabled.if the user A already connect to datastore from management console in some one windows env. when customer want to connect to datastore by user A from another windows env, the data...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Inconsistent cross-referencing in Command Syntax Reference reduces usability

The primary issue is 'bundling' subcommands in the Command Syntax Reference CSR). Under each main syntax command, there is an 'outline' or schematic of the available commands. Each of these commands *should* have a separate detailed entry to expla...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Convert DB2 GBK database to GB18030 without database re-creation

SEAC ( State Ethnic Affairs Commission ) issued a new regulation recently. Database codepage GB18030 is required for information systems in sectors of government and public service. DB2 has the limitation of having to re-create database if databas...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration