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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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Support lineage for Command Tasks in IFPC

Background Informatica PowerCenter provides a Command task that allow users to leverage bash scripts in Linux system or DOS/batch scripts in Window systems. For example, you can specify shell commands in the Command task to delete reject files, co...
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

WKC API must return a specific error messages

WKC API must return a specific error so VZ can pinpoint why an extract is failing When the data profiling script is executed, we are receiving errors/ exceptions from the WKC API call intermittently. The response error code that it returns is not ...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

New packages button, would significantly improve our users experience

We have a packages folder containing all our packages that our users use. To get to it when creating a new report/dashboard, they have to scroll down all the team folders that we have which is slow and frustrating.It would make perfect sense in th...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhanecement request to have file connector accept a list of hosts, and not just a single host name

Client uses orc and Avro HDFS formats, which in turn use File Connector stage instead of Big Data File stage. The file connector leverages WebHDFS and has a “host” property that must be explicitlyset to point to an active name node, in order f...
over 8 years ago in Information Server 0 Delivered

lsf proxyd logging in log file

From the documentations, it seems LSF proxyd is currently showing its logs from perfmon view style of command and this RFE is to enable lsf proxyd logging same as other daemons are logging currently. e.g. mbatchd.log, mbschd.log.. similarly we sho...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Delivered

Support reading JSON format

This request is to support an ability to parse JSON data within IBM SPSS Modeler -- whether the JSON data is in a file, embedded in a database column, or comes from Hadoop.
over 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Delivered

Allow SPSS Modeler Flow to read parquet file stored in storage volume (NFS) in CPD

Allow SPSS Modeler Flow to read parquet file stored in storage volume (NFS) in CPD We have CPD 4.5.0 running on on-premises BareMetal OCP4.10 Cluster. The customer is using SPSS modeler flows and they would like to import data stored in parquet fo...
over 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Remove XML files after saving them in the shared location

This case has been opened to eliminate the XML files that has been creating while saving the file to an external system.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Anywhere search is offered

We've had issues with an unreliable indexing update process resulting in a dysfunctional search. As a result, it's made us realize many of the new features (data modules and other) have a complete dependency on the search to select objects (upload...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Introduction of SSO passthought of ACL lists. For example, SSO onto CP4D on Azure will create automatic data connections down onto the Azure FS in line with user Azure RBAC, ACL's and CP4D RBAC. This is already a key feature of Databricks and DataIQ.

Allows users to access their files in CP4D without the need to hand-crank connectuon strings.
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration