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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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Schema Validation using Avro File Format under File Connector stage (AvroStreams)

Schema Validation exists with old avro1.x version but not with Avrostreams. Schema vadliation should be always available Avrostreams which avoid CLASSPATH setting.
7 days ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

Allow for custom auroralogging.properties file to define custom loggers that aren't overwritten by upgrades/fix packs/interim fixes

When implementing custom loggers we have to place these in the auroralogging.properties file. This works great until the file gets re-created during the installation of upgrades, fix packs or interim fixes. We would like a custom auroralogging.pro...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Future consideration

Track the export history

The export of user data (*) is currently not logged. Considering the fact that SaaS use is becoming more and more common these days, customers are highly concerned about the security of cloud services, and we believe that information leaks are an ...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

Add ability for OpenPages/Cognos administrators to add custom images to server

We need to include a custom diagram image for each assessment, which will then be displayed in the Cognos PDF report for that assessment. Currently, the PDF report is unable to use the image if uploaded/attached to an object within OpenPages (only...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Bulk import of lineage filters (.WBF files)

"Import a lineage filter" function under Lineage Management in the admin console does not allow the selection of more than one WBF file for upload. In scenarios where a multitude of filters need to be imported, the current functionality allows for...
over 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 0 Not under consideration

Information Analyzer Virtual Tables - Parameters

Problem: Currently within the Virtual Tables and SQL Virtual Tables there is no way to pass a Parameter externally within a Filter Condition. As an example if I am using a date filter in a VT or SQL VT that extracts the data for a given day or giv...
almost 6 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 3 Not under consideration

IMAM XSD Import from Engine Tier

InfoSphere Metadata Asset Manager (IMAM) allows you to import .xsd files to get metadata about respective .xml data files. However the way IMAM currently works is that the .xsd file you want to import can only be on the client from which the IMAM ...
almost 8 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Cryptographically sign all executables and DLLs

McAfee Application and Change Control (MACC) is a suite of security software used by the Navy to protect their servers. MACC protects the OS by blocking executable files (.exe, .dll, .jar, etc) unless they have been "solidified" and permitted to e...
about 3 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

GDPR: Allow for file attachments to be anonymized as well (file name and contents)

GDPR API features introduced with version 8.0.0.1 do not allow for anonymizing file names and contents. At least for PDF, TXT, CSV and common MS Office files should be consider during search and replace (anonymization) as well.
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Enhanecement request to have file connector accept a list of hosts, and not just a single host name

Client uses orc and Avro HDFS formats, which in turn use File Connector stage instead of Big Data File stage. The file connector leverages WebHDFS and has a “host” property that must be explicitlyset to point to an active name node, in order f...
about 8 years ago in Information Server 0 Delivered