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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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terminate rollback

When database is rollback a long transaction , it may take a long time. User don't want to wait for rollback to finish. One scenario is that user has made a large change on a table that is not that important table so they are willing to drop it (o...
over 6 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

IIDR CDC Support for Oracle Exadata

We are moving all our Oracle Databases to ORacle Exadata Database Servers. After migrating, when we try to replicate data from Exadata to Netezza using IBM CDC (IIDR), IIDR doesn't like Exadata. When talking to IBM support, we figured that IIDR is...
over 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Functionality already exists

Option to fetch Sub Types while exporting the WKS ML model to use in Content Analytics

We have a requirement to use WKS ML model in Content Analytics. I have created subtypes in the WKS model for better understanding of the data. But I am not able to fetch those subtypes while exporting as there is only option to use mentions and re...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Importing metadata via JDBC Data Connection should show accurate db_name

When discovering assets in 11.7.1, using a JDBC data connection, "the database name to use might differ from the actual database name, depending on the JDBC driver. For example, for Db2 you might need to use db2, and for Oracle ibm." This is docum...
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

Add retention policies to extract files

In Optim Test Data Management the Optim Extract file is only of use for a limited period and can contain sensitive information if it's the initial extract from a production system. Practically customers do not wish to, nor should they hang on to e...
over 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Include a repeat counter for execution multiple times in Hierarchical stage.

Currently I know of a number of companies that are using the Hierarchical Stage (such as Walmart and Vanguard) for pulling data from cloud services such as ServiceNow or Archer. Because there is no looping structure within the Enterprise pallet (e...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Python analytics users need an IDE

Jupyter notebooks are nice for data exploration and presentations. Proper data science work for production needs to be done in an IDE.PyCharm or something similar would be perfect.
over 6 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Functionality already exists

Data Asset Status

Running a flow will populate a data asset and may make one think that it is available. We should be able to quickly view in the UI if that data asset is available.
over 6 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Limiting the query data size in LSF

We recently experienced problems with mbatchd due to the size of the query data. The following is IBM support team's comments. Based on query_info.log last Saturday, I saw many lines with same data size during 1 second. Each line indicates 1 query...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Teradata Connector Enable Data Encryption

There are situations were the data connection between Datastage and Teradata need to be encrypted to transfer sensitive information. Currently the option exists in ODBC, but not in the Teradata Connector.
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration