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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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Add a way to wait for bufferpool creation when creating tablespaces

What we do when creating tablespaces as part of migration files (think flyway, but any similar utility will be relevant) is to create a bufferpool and then create the tablespace. Example: create bufferpool dummy size 5000 pagesize 8k; create table...
about 19 hours ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Spark job to be able to access, read and write on external database without the credentials being exposed anywhere (instance, logs, job metadata, etc…)

We want to create a job on a Spark instance of the Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark that runs a Spark application reading from and writing to an Exasol database. To enable database access, we need to pass our user credentials into the job....
13 days ago in Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

Enable query results to be exported in Excel (.xlsx) format in addition to CSV.

Currently, users in Query Workspace can only download query results in CSV format. Many customers request the ability to also export results as Excel files (.xlsx), as Excel is the most commonly used format for internal reporting, data sharing, an...
19 days ago in watsonx.data 0 Submitted

Schema Validation using Avro File Format under File Connector stage (AvroStreams)

Schema Validation exists with old avro1.x version but not with Avrostreams. Schema vadliation should be always available Avrostreams which avoid CLASSPATH setting.
21 days ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

LOAD should be compatible with a snapshot backup

LOAD is not compatible when an integrated snapshot backup (or when the backup is issued with the USE SNAPSHOT option) is being performed. During an integrated snapshot backup, in addition to the database being put into set write suspend state, it ...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools 0 Under review

Improve Object Selection Stability in Tree Pane of Planning Analytics Workbench

Dear IBM Support Team, I am submitting this enhancement request to address an inconsistency in the object selection behavior within the Tree Pane of the Planning Analytics Workbench. Currently, selecting and copying object names is unreliable, whi...
23 days ago in Planning Analytics 2 Planned for future release

License Manager enables administrator to change check-license-interval

Currently, I think SPSS Modeler are using the OEM functionality to manage the number of licenses. However, since the license check interval is fixed (approximately every 5 minutes), when someone finishes using SPSS Modeler, the license is not rele...
6 days ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Submitted

Allow a MASS DELETE as a recovery point for a tablespace

As we discussed in case TS019823289, we believe it's necessary to be able to use a MASS DELETE (recorded in SYSCOPY) as a recovery point for a tablespace. This would avoid reading large amounts of log files that, in our view, aren't necessary. We ...
3 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

Export PAW Book to Excel

This feature would allow users to export an entire Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) book directly into Excel. Each tab of the book would be exported as a separate worksheet within a single Excel file. Why is it useful? It simplifies the sharing ...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Restrict access to WSDL

We are using web services inside IPM and we managed to restrict access to authenticated users that means users with an active account defined within IPM. But we didn't success in restricting access to wsdl file that stay public and may cause a sec...
7 days ago in Product Master 0 Submitted