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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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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Retry Logic

Why it is usufull , Pipelines self-heal, Data keeps flowing consistent and Operational noise is reduced. Retry only transient failures Timeouts Network issues Temporary locks Retryable HTTP status codes (e.g., 408, 429, 5xx) Limit retries Prevent ...
4 days ago in StreamSets Submitted

Add ability to test final rules in the test sandbox

Final rules could be more readily and easily verified by allowing them to be tested through the test sandbox.
4 days ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational Future consideration

Copy where clause from an Adhoc to a Goup by query and vice versaThe

Having the ability to copy the where clause from one query to another would make writing queries much more streamlined.
4 days ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational Not under consideration

Have the select all option which will select all the value in the multi-select field

Have the select all option which will select all the value in the multi-select field where is lets say we have country field which has 200 value and user want to select 190 values than user have to go select each and every value. can we bring an o...
4 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Under review

Dumping DB/schema tables into parquet files

Parquet files are becoming a standard for storing tables as flat files and moving data between different systems. Netezza currently supports parquet files as external tables but only using minIO. Would be great if there would be a way to offload w...
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Netezza Performance Server Submitted

HISTDB logging access to views

In HISTDB on Netezza we are logging access to tables but not access to views. Would be great if at least access to the main view without any referenced views would be logged.
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Netezza Performance Server Submitted

Support user-defined calculations in Universal Reports

User-defined calculations are a frequently used option when working with Planning Analytics. In Perspectives, the use of subsets made it very easy to create your own consolidations. With PAfE, there is the DefineCalc function in conjunction with D...
5 days ago in Planning Analytics Planned for future release

Support re-deploy of the same package when packageversion=false

we found out after the removal of a package from the cluster, there is no easy way to add such package back to rs. we should support add a package back if it has the same checksum, otherwise this will be an operational risk for us.
5 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 Under review

Ability to set default settings/filter for Activity filter in the Activity tab

Currently the Activity tab has a filter for "Field", "Relationship" and "Workflow". Can we please allow the admin the option to set the default filters in this Activity tab? Rather than just the individual user being able to update the filter them...
5 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Under review

Support temporarily adding additional PVs (storage) for use in temporary tablespaces (reorgs, partial restores, admin move tables, ...)

As an enterprise customer, there are actions to improve data structure or performance by reorgs or admin move tables. Having large indexes and tables with tablespaces >4 TB, there is the need to create temporary tablespaces. However, today this...
23 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud Submitted