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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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Provide support for watsonx.data to consume data from Cloudera CDP Kafka clusters protected by Kerberos.

Brazilian clients currently use Cloudera Hadoop clusters secured with Kerberos. We are facing challenges in demonstrating the value of watsonx.data in scenarios where Kerberos-enabled Cloudera workloads are required. Additionally, financial instit...
5 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review

Do not require a CAST for BLOB/CLOB content in DQM mode

Currently, we found out that BLOB or CLOB data fields are being automatically cut down to 1024 chars by IBM Cognos when used in reporting, via the new DQM mode. This is unacceptable. A CLOB/BLOB field is used in data warehousing for the exact purp...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Return information about a failed Lock-Escalation to the application

When a Lock-Escalation occurs it is documented by message DSNI031I (Lock Escalation has occurred) in the Db2-Master-Adressspace. But when a Lock-Escalation fails there is no documentation for this, instead it comes to a Timeout or Deadlock from a ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Control of Locksize and Maxpartitions for implicitly defined tablespaces.

We must be able to control parameters like locksize and maxpartitions on implicitly defined tablespaces.In DB2 V12R1M504 multi table tablespaces are deprecated, so we need to use implicitly defined tablespaces for QMF useres. Today we use segmente...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Ability To Selectively Deploy Data Sources

We need the ability to have project admins (users, not people with SYSADM rights) export specific data sources from one environment to another, and have that respect the defined permissions. So: if a user wants to migrate a Dynamic Cube data sourc...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow model_upload folder to be outside of data directory

All files uploaded to PAW to be used as datasources are saved in the data directory in a folder labeled model_upload. We do regular local backups of just our data directories, currently this includes the files in model_upload. If the upload files ...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add Format option to Run Options in Cognos Analytics 11 Report Authoring

Add Format option in the report authoring tools Run Options dialog so user can View Tabular Data in format other than HTML
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Private Endpoint Support for Data Stage in IBM Cloud

Submitted on behalf of federico_accetta@it.ibm.com -- please contact him directly A significant number of customer engagements involve hybrid connectivity between IBM Cloud and on-premises environments. However, many core data platform services—sp...
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Supply RACF Exit IRREVX01 to fail commands against Db2 classes that don't have the proper syntax.

As encountered in Case TS013914362, invalid profiles would not be created that could leave unused records in the RACF data base and also confuse Db2 when RACF notifies Db2 to refresh the cached profiles. All Db2 for z/OS users utilizing RACF could...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Native Connector for accessing data with Delta on S3 in DataStage Classic

We are building an Open Lakehouse with the data stored with Delta in S3 Storage. Watsonx.data uses the same Open Lakehouse approaches, but is using Iceberg instead of Delta. DataStage as an ETL tool should support a wide range of different technol...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 1