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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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Referential Integrity for Real-time Statistics Tables (RI for RTS)

OVERVIEW: The RTS tables do not have DB2-enforced RI. The DB2 component that handles the maintenance of this data can encounter certain failures that can result in obsolete/invalid/orphaned data in the table(s). By the way, this is more prevalent ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Watson Studio should work with Enterprise Github

This is a specific request to have github enterprise integration into Watson Studio. At the moment, IBMers cannot integrate notebooks being shared in github and iterated over in github to pull into a Watson Studio workflow. This applies to all cod...
over 7 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Functionality already exists

Certify Information Server with SAS 9.4 M6

We are using Information Server 11.7.1 and have multiple ETL jobs that use SAS connectors to execute SAS code from the ETL server ( SAS 9.4 M3 ). However the SAS version has now been upgraded to SAS 9.4 M6 and the connectivity via the provided con...
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 4 Future consideration

Ability to import notebooks to access functions when running a notebook as a job

Within the JupyterLabs IDE users are able to use a package like https://pypi.org/project/import-ipynb/ to import local notebooks and access the functions etc within. This does not function when notebooks are run as Jobs. Scenario: Notebook A impor...
about 5 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

PAW: More flexibility in assigning colors

Currently the sequence of colors in the palette determines the selected color per chart element. It would be great, if a user could flexibly assign colors from the palette to individual elements. The default could be the sequence of the palette an...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Regular Expressions (regex) scalar function

The XMLQUERY function allows the user to use the 'fn:matches' XQuery function, which is great. Please see example UDF which does this... ~~~~~~~~~~--#SET TERMINATOR ! CREATE FUNCTION "UDF_STRING_REGEX_MATCH" ( SEARCHSTRING VARCHAR (50) ) RETURNS S...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Prevent LSF from dispatching jobs to problematic hosts consistently

Some jobs are dispatched to a host and failed because the communication between MBATCHD and SBATCHD is failed. The host keeps in OK status and the jobs keep dispatching to the host, which makes the job can not run for a long time. The communicatio...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Extension Node - Syntax Highlighting

Initial Situation: In same cases we have the need in ibm spss modeler streams to use R / python to add very special functionality. Issue: The extension node, e.g. (extension model) has no syntax highlighting Due to the lack of usability, most of i...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler 1 Not under consideration

Alignment to ORX Universal Codes

ORX is an external risk repository provider. In the ORX events are coded and represented as EL0100, but in the IBM Openpages ORM Loss screen, e.g. EL0100 appears as EL01. That is the zeroes are deleted and not recognized. This results in additiona...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Delivered

Increase Source Code and Source Name Length in IBM MDM SE

We are in middle of migrating our MDM system from one of the other Vendor to IBM InfoSphere MDM Standard Edition. There are some source codes which are of length greater than 12 characters and source names which are off length greater than 40 char...
about 5 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Not under consideration