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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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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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Self-Healing for Hadoop Add-on Services

we observed that Hadoop Addon for Cloudera was unstable and it was crashing time to time. This tool is not highly available and can’t recover from crash. Each time this service crashed, there is a need for manual intervention by Hadoop administrat...
over 6 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Delivered

Auto-Recovery of Hadoop Integration on Reboot

auto-restart capability for the services in the Hadoop addon( the Hadoop /Spark connectivity from Watson studio will be broken once this service stops. According to our experience this connector crashes often and it can’t recover itself without ma...
over 6 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Delivered

M360: Policy compliant data subscriptions between data centers

As a governance professional, I want to be sure that data is not accidentally published to regions or for uses that don’t comply with my policies for the data in WKC.
over 6 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Planned for future release

ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN diagnostic log record needs more information to be useful

The ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN diagnostic log record (type = 0x4400, subtype = 0x0083) lacks two crucial pieces of information as of DB2 V11 beta. 1. The inline length of the column if the added column is a LOB data type. 2. An indication that the col...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Load to 'More Information' fields for Companies

I would like a method to load data to the 'More Information' fields in the Company structure. Now that there are 30 fields available I would like to use them to store information my company has in spreadsheets and sql tables. Having to manually...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Audit Grading Requirements

According to the company's IT auditing requirements, system users need to be audited, and statistical analysis of users and systems. But once the system opens the audit function, there are too many things to audit, which seriously affects the norm...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Batch exception not available out of box

There is a business requirement not to reject the entire batch. We experimented with relaxing PAIN schema validation, but found that the code does not support that. (The result is unacceptable: a "Failed" batch will be interrupted at the point of ...
over 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / TCH RTP 1 Not under consideration

Allow DVM to access alternative credentials from a RACF or ICSF repository instead of using global variables

We would like for DVM to be able to seamlessly access RACF in order to retrieve alternative credentials for users that are accessing data behind LDAP security. The current solution is to use AVZDRATH utility to create the alternative credentials....
over 6 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Delivered

Create utility to generate encrypted password in the same manner as AVZDRATH

Currently, AVZDRATH has the ability to take in an encrypted password as input, however there are no other utilities available to generate the encrypted password outside of AVZDRATH. Since our DVM support team will be responsible for managing the g...
over 6 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

merge node: join small local dataset to large remote dataset by sending the local data literally in the sql query

In a merge node, when joining a small local dataset to a large remote database table, Modeler downloads the entire contents of the large table in order to perform the join. This is often prohibitive. Instead, if the local dataset is small enough (...
over 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration