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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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Ability to Enable and Change Logging Levels and Log Destinations/Formats for Pipelines and Stages

It's possible now to add log4j appenders to a Data Collector's sdc.properties file to set or change logging levels, writing to the sdc.log file, but the file is verbose and difficult to interpret. It would be great to be able to do this within the...
6 months ago in StreamSets 0 Future consideration

Modernizing ADABAS: Optimizing INSERT into Adabas Virtual Tables

One of the key points in a modernization project for a site with Adabas is to “normalize” Adabas Data Model. DVM offers a normalized Data Model for any Adabas file, converting MU/PE fields into auxiliary Tables. This normalization has a cost: you ...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Resource connector provider configuration file ( such as cyclecloudprov_config.json) should have encrypted passwords/credentials

Security leak will be avioded. Clear text password are risky to put;.
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 0 Future consideration

Preview feature for file attachments

We received a request for an enhancement to the Supporting Documents and Artifacts (file attachments) grid functionality in the TFUI. When user is viewing file attachments associated to an object in the object's task view, the request is to be abl...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration

Extend Cognos Analytics product documentation by information about 3rd party certificates

I was activating ssl in a customer's productive cognos analytics environment. I followed the instructions of the corresponding product documentation for cognos analytics 11.2.4: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.2.0?topic=ecmica-conf...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Future consideration

Forward CP4D Job logs to OpenShift supported log collector and forward it to an external log store

Customer would like to collect all Job/Run logs generated by Watson Notebook /Pipeline services , and forward it to an external central log store facilities . Currently they have configured OpenShift Cluster Logging operator (CLO) to collect all t...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Future consideration

Reduce manual steps in the OpenPages deployment process

There are too many manual steps in the OpenPages deployment process which is a risk to a successful deployment and stability of the deployed code. This request is to automate or eliminate the manual steps. Please check the attached file for the en...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 3 Future consideration

Multiple file import on CC Web

A user can currently select and import multiple flatfiles within Controller Classic, thus loading multiple company files in one action. In contrast, Controller Web restricts file import to a single file import. Can Web be updated to accept multipl...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

BACKUP INCLUDE LOGS should add logs to backup image as soon as they are closed

Today the log files get added to backup image at end of backup, which could easily cause that log files need to be retrieved from archive that they can be added to backup image. Adding the log files as soon as possible would avoid time consuming a...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Default sort for fields 'Size' and 'Last Updated' in Drive Explorer

When in Drive Explorer, upon first selecting to sort on fields 'Size' and 'Last Updated', can the first sort be largest to smallest (Size), and latest to oldest (Last Updated) set as the default. For large folders, it can take some time for the so...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration