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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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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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Search results: Future Version

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PySpark Kernel unable to read/extract when connected to external database using Kerberos Keytab

IBM JRE supplied as part of Sym 7.3.1 + Conductor 2.5 is incompatible with current use-case Use-case: We have a client that uses Spark/Notebooks (PySpark kernel) to connect an external database via ODBC using kerberos. Whenever they try to connect...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 3 Delivered

Run SparkCleanup service per individual Instance group instead of centrally

We would like SparkCleanup service to run as execution user of each individual Instance Group, rather than centrally as cluster admin. This will avoid the need to do preliminary work to make sure execution users of SIG are part of cluster admin un...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 0 Delivered

Data connector for CDH 6.x

A certified data connector to Cloudera CDH 6.x.
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 1 Delivered

IBM Conductor support of Julia language

Julia has risen rapidly as a Data Scientist tool to integrate Python, often with R. But performance and scale are close to C programming code. Need to see a plan to integrate the capability (or positioning on why it is now Irrelevant). Since IBM h...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 0 Not under consideration

MAPR support as datasource in CwS

This is from case #TS001210587. Customer case requires to read/write data from MAPR FS from CwS SIG
about 7 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 3 Delivered

Support SparkR processing from PPC64LE

SparkR is needed by our data science team
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 2 Delivered

Support Jupyter Notebook on PPC64LE

Our data science team is requesting to use Jupyter Notebook for visualizations and prototyping.
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 3 Delivered

Create SIG directories with REST API

When using the conductor REST API to create a SIG, it assumes that you have already created directories for history, custom settings, notebook data, and notebook extra config. The rest api should create these files and directories on the cluster i...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 2 Not under consideration

User Authentication for ELK

What form of security is in place for Elasticsearch instances at this time? For security reasons, we can't allow anyone who knows the instance location to make queries or submit data as that would expose or modify client's private log data.
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 3 Delivered