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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Oracle Instant Client Support is required

IBM OpenPages currently supports Oracle Admin Client. Since Oracle Admin Client has many libraries, it exposes the application to security risks that can be avoided by supporting only a limited set of libraries that are available in Oracle Instant...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 3 Delivered

[Foundation][RFE][UC] - Provide systemd scripts for Spectrum Symphony

RHEL 7 and recent Ubuntu version use systemd as their default init system. To be fully supported by Red Hat and in order to get more control on when the service starts (order, timing, dependencies), it's a wise choice to provide a systemd script a...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Delivered

[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

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

MDM Containers compliant to general standards

Currently the MDM Container do not follow general standards like the one from RedHat (https://www.redhat.com/en/resources/cloud-native-container-design-whitepaper). This makes it harder to adopt these containers for environments. We now have to ma...
about 4 years ago in Master Data Management 2 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

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

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

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