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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.

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Dynamic schema and form

Use cases to consider:1. User selects USA v Canada and gets different options after (postal code v zip code) 2. User is accessing excel online and will have different sets of columns based on what excel they select 3. User is accessing Jira and ba...
almost 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Delivered

Unit of Work - KCOP Commit operations

Source is --> ZOS Target is --> Linux Kafka using Confluent Bank of America is the client and they want our kafka message to be like their sample message below that client mocked up for the transactional commit : { 'Key {"CONT_ID": " 0739126...
over 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Planned for future release

Need the custom crawler sample with Python

Currently the custom crawler sample code is Java only. My customer is requesting the Python one for their ease of use and productivity.
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Security improvement - project lib to obtain token without having to hard code it in the notebook

The project token gives you superuser access to connected data. I would like Watson Studio to pass the project lib authentication token without me having to harcode it in my notebook.
over 7 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Functionality already exists

Upgrade log4j jar file in DVM JDBC driver

The Scenario : Using the latest DVM JDBC Driver, users issue an import command on Apache Sqoop to do a parquet file conversion. The Problem: The error “java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 'org.apache.logging.log4j.Level org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionCon...
almost 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

NOT NULL limitation violation of VARCHAR2 in case federated SELECT ''(empty charactor) from Oracle compati Db2 to Native Db2

[Situation]There is a federated system between VARCHAR2 compatibility off w/ NOT NULL limitation column defined table (actual source table) and VARCHAR2 compatibility on w/ NOT NULL limitation column defined nick name (federated) table.[Current de...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Not under consideration

Color-coding report tabs

Report pages can be rendered as tabs in Reporting. However, it is not easy to differentiate one page from another. It would be easier if the tabs could be formatted with different colors
almost 6 years ago in Analytics Engine 1 Not under consideration

Enhance ClassCastException to Support Integration with Dynatrace

We need to submit a request to enhance Cognos Analytics. Dynatrace is a system monitoring tool. It monitors your infrastructure (Server memory, CPU, etc.), as well as the application (in memory monitoring). When Dynatrace is enabled there is a fea...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Infosphere Optim TDM - Function CONVERSION_ERROR_RC4 missing for LUW

Short problem description: "CONVERSION_ERROR_RC4". There is a option in Optim for z/OS reguarding conversion error. From the manual. CONVERSION_ERROR_RC4 Option to enforce how the return code is set when conversion errors are detected or rows are ...
almost 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Not under consideration

RECOVER to A MIGRATED FLASHCOPY

We are in DB2 V10.We recovered a tablespace to a flashcopy. The flashcopy was migrated via HSM and the recover skipped to a previous copy (not migrated). The job returned return code = 04 with the message FLASHCOPY ....... FOR TABLESPACE DBHWCOPY....
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration