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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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Enhance Readme in project as guide for new collaborators

The Readme in the project overview allows to guide collaborators new to a project as widely used in Github. However users miss it easily due to its inferior location and small size in the Overview page. Then they can not directly read it in the Ov...
11 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Delivered

We need spring framework updated to latest version for Spectrum Symphony 7.3.1

We need to address CVE-2023-20861 in Spectrum Symphony 7.3.1 and to address this we need Spring framework updated in 7.3 1 version from current 5.2.22 to latest version.
11 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 2 Delivered

Provide backup and restore procedures on Manta installed on-prem

Manta Documentation should have: 1. Procedures to backup all Manta data and config without requiring Manta to be shut down. This ensures that periodic backups of Manta can be taken without adversely affecting its availability. 2. Procedures to res...
11 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Delivered

Discovery comprehensive handling of domain-specific dictionaries

Discovery is being positioned as replacement for R&R yet search (and not even WKS-based enrichment) cannot handle a comprehensive handling of domain-specific language, such as technical support. In R&R this was achieved by direct access to...
over 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Delivered

Provide functionality to free inactive copies of native REST service packages

Native REST services in Db2 system have packages. There can also exist inactive copies (original and previous copies - COPYID 1 and 2) of these REST service packages - coming out of PLANMGMT. Problem: Current FREE SERVICE command implementation (c...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Delivered

User configuration of dashboard in new UI

Users cannot configure their dashboard in the new UI, they instead have to switch to the standard UI to make changes and accept the re-formatting of the dashboard when task / oversight / report information is automatically overlaid on their dashbo...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Delivered

Enable usability for Native DDF Rest Services (e.g. APPLCOMPAT, Version,..)

Please support following enhancements for usability reasons for Native DDF REST Services: (1) APPLCOMPAT(2) enable Package Versioning(3) Switch between the versions (4) Deploy Native DDF Rest Services to a remote DB2 system
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Supporting Oracle parameter exafusion_enabled = 1

IIDR cannot replicate with Oracle 12cR2 Exadata parameter exafusion_enabled = 1. Apparently, IIDR do not know how to process Oracle logs when the parameter is set to 1. However, this parameter is crucial for the best Oracle DB functioning and perf...
almost 7 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

Don't delete RD Related Values before a new import

When importing related values in a reference dataset in CP4D the previous related values are removed first before importing the new RVs. For crosswalks, this has a significant impact. To illustrate, we have the following tables: -ISO Alpha2 Countr...
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 6 Delivered

Enable CLI that allows to modify resource groups' preference level for a consumer

IBM Spectrum Symphony product GUI allows users to choose more than one resource groups for a consumer and set their preference level to seek compute capacity when there is demand. However, there is no CLI (command Line interface) that allows users...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 7 Delivered