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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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Remove the limitation in ISTOOL for Extension Mapping Document import for CP4D

We opened a ticket for the error (file.csv exceeds 5120KB, skipping it...) we were getting when we tried to import extension mapping document using istool in IIS 1.7.1 (see ticket # TS012233188). IBM tech told us that this is a limitation for ISTO...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Not under consideration

Improving RapidJobUpdateTool

Hello My company doesn't want to use DB2 and Oracle anymore, we are moving to PGS. We have a lot a datastage jobs using those DBMS. I would like to automatise the swicth from a DB2 stage to an ODBC one but RapidJobUpdateTool doesn't have ODBC in t...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Clear instructions/information panel on using Document Classifier trained with custom dictionaries

Document classifiers are extremely valuable in programmatically sorting document types based on its content. The document classifier in WDS can be trained solely on parts-of-speech or in combination with additional assets such as custom dictionari...
about 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Improve ADD/MATCH

Since the dawn of time, ADD CASES and MATCH FILES have required that string variables have the same length across files. This is a frequent problem., especially when the data originated in Excel. It would be very helpful if this limitation were re...
about 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

allow LDAP based db2 instance user for PureScale instance creation

Right now instance creation and maintainance in PureScale (db2icrt/db2iupdt) requires that the db2 instance user is local, i.e. has an entry in local /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. This expose a huge problem for LDAP based environments like ours whe...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Support JSON Output Format for the LSB Stream File

We have a number of downstream uses for the LSB Stream file. One of the downsides of the current format is that it can be difficult to read and parse. If this file where had an options to be written in JSON format, it would be much easier to consu...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

A function that brings up words that are similar in usage from a certain word

< Assumed procedure> (1) Prepare the original word (seed) (including nouns, verbs, adjectives, and sentence expressions if possible)(2) Estimate and output words that are used in the same way as Seed from the input sentences.(3) Check the wo...
about 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Is it possible to use a SAML proxy as an workaround of LSF PAC that does not support of Azure AD?

Dear experts, We expect to integrate Azure AD into Application Center, but LSF PAC does not support of Azure AD. So I would like to ask the experts from IBM if it is possible to use a SAML proxy as an workaround of LSF PAC that does not support of...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 0 Future consideration

Pass the dbname in parameter to the view

The Scenario: We use IDMS database and we have a lot of dbname in our organization. The Problem: We have to define a virtual table and a virtual views for all of our dbname. This create a lot of redundant work. Proposed solutions: The possibilitie...
about 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

IDMS in Update

The Scenario: We can use DVM to access data in retrieval but we need an other solution to update the IDMS database. The Problem: It’s not possible to update IDMS databases. Current workarounds: Currently we need to develop Z/OS Connect API and COB...
about 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration