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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.

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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Support more than 14,500 archive log data sets in Db2 to achieve archiving and recovery requirements

Busy Db2 systems archive logs frequently due to log data set size limits. Additionally, cyber resiliency RPO requirements force frequent log switches based on a time interval (e.g., switch every 5 minutes). Both leads to more frequent log archivin...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Control (e.g. with a ZPARM) automatic log switch if the max. log span is reached

Today Db2 switches the log when the max log data set size is reached. The idea is to also let Db2 switch the log if a time interval has been reached (e.g. every 5 minutes). This is important in the context of cyber resiliency initiatives. To achie...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Enhancing Performance and Latency metrics with append when you relog to MC

Useful to cross verify the latency and performance , also to keep an historical data for the benchmark , also sending the data to datadog, splunk, appdynamics or grafana these tools are being used by many clients and it will be useful to send our ...
3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Increase Width of Search/Replace Input Fields in PAW Rules Editor and Process Editor Find/Replace Dialog (Better Space Utilization)

Hello dear team, Idea Summary / Business Case: In IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW), the Find/Replace dialog (opened via Ctrl+F in Rules Editor or TurboIntegrator Process Editor) uses extremely narrow, fixed-width input fields for "Find" and ...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Controller Web import specifications must allow the reuse of a column for different field definitions to avoid customers having to produce duplicate columns

In the version 11.1.1100.47 and forwards it is not possible for in import specification created in Controller Web, to re-use a column in a file 2 or more times for a field in the import spec. This was possible in previous versions. The fact that t...
3 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Planned for future release

Ability to modify Spark Shuffle/Master/History Services individually in the Service Profile

Bank of America needs to apply SPARK_DAEMON_MEMORY to individually service since Spark Shuffle/Master/History have different memory requirements. In the spark configuration, SPARK_DAEMON_MEMORY is applied to all at the same time. BofA would also l...
8 days ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 Submitted

Enable data modules identifiers to be case insensitive to support compatibility with multiple database platforms

Data module migration from database (Oracle) with uppercase column names to database with lowercase column names (Databricks) or visa versa are not migratable. Validation errors are thrown in the data module for missing identifiers. This requires ...
9 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling Submitted

CVA windows client: publish FP3 C# libraries in MS Artifactory

CVA application TraderWorkstation (TW) is requesting us to push C# libraries to our internal MS artifactory or repository so that they can install it on their compilation servers or setup the frontend application runtime environment. I have starte...
9 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 Submitted

Enable support for Oracle Partitioning or Oracle Always On

Real-Life Scenario & Pain Points: Consider a large government agency using Cognos Analytics for financial auditing and human resources reporting against a 50-terabyte Oracle data warehouse. A senior financial analyst needs to run a report to a...

Label values in the input of a custom machine learning mode

We define models using Custom Machine Learning in OpenPages, and set OpenPages fields as model input fields. When an OpenPages field is an enumerated (list) value, the value defined by the name is passed to the model. However, in our business oper...
9 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API Under review