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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.

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Distribution key support for accelerator-only (AOTs) tables missing

Db2 PTF UI72862 introduced a new DDL feature to support distribution keys for AOTs. This doesn't work in the current Administration Tools Version. The DDL comments containing the distribution key definition for the AOT should to be passed to the a...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support LDAP as a centralized storage for Oracle TNS connection data

Oracle Database support storing the TNS connection information in a centralized manner by utilizing the LDAP services and protocol.Support for reading the connection details from LDAP is a built-in feature of Oracle Client.Centralized management o...
almost 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Accessing Dataconnector in conductor using python from GPU server

Hello Team, we have setup a connector in GPU to access HDFS from our CPU cluster. However, i am able to access the file in HDFS using spark but not using python. I would like to understand how to access HDFS using python commands. Connector Name: ...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Future consideration

Ability to control the number of XQE log files in logs/XQE folder

Currently there appears to be no other way to control the number of log files to kept in logs/XQE folder, other than manually cleaning them up. Client would like to have a feature similar to cogserver.log files to allow only specific number of fil...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data select and copy feature in Report Studio Active Reports Output

Hi, there is no way to select and copy the output data of an Active Report (MHT File) that is developed in Report Studio. So, a PMR has been raised for it and based on support suggestion, we intend to log this enhancement request as our customers ...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request to have app profile level settings to limit number of tasks executed in a persistent service instance

In a large cluster shared by 100's of applications from different LOBs, quite often, the a bad application workload might crash or disable servers by:1) over consumption of system memory2) filling up the root file systems with core files3) etcIn t...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 2 Not under consideration

IBM Case switch in apdiag collect

The apdiag utility has many useful features and I think enhancing it to include case switch would be beneficial. Every time IBM Support asks us to provide information from apdiag, we need to run the command on the server and transfer the file to t...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Delivered

job group management improvement

Hello,checking log file of RTM server, we found a recurrent warning triggered by too many job group for one of our LSF cluster. this highlight that we cannot have more than ~7000 job group for a cluster, the impacted cluster having ~30k explicit j...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered

Ldap setting to force username to lower - Hadoop requirement

We have alpha numeric user id's which AD returns as Upper case example 1. when you look up a user "b1234", AD returns "B1234" 2. the cloudera cluster spss analytical server is trying to inter-phase with forces all user id to lowercase 3. When use...
over 5 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Analytics Server 1 Delivered

Import/Export Console needs to be accessible within Persona UI and also manage movement and archiving of files

One real life scenario: Bulk loading items via a csv file is the most efficient way for our Merchandise department to create new items and is a core component of what they do. Without the ability to run an import job on an adhoc basis in the Perso...
over 5 years ago in Product Master 0 Delivered