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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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Allow for auto-generated names of WDP assets

We seem to have adopted a convention where every dataset, notebook, pipeline, connector, etc. requires a user-supplied name before it can be created. I can see where the names are valuable in a large project over time but when you're just getting ...
over 8 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Not under consideration

SQLHOSTS groups connect to non-primary

Include at SQLHOSTS options specific for groups to allow connection for non-pimary serversSomething like : conn_sec = 1 Then , the client will be able to connect at any server of the group, no matter if it is Primary / HDR / RSS / SDS. ... Today i...
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Python 3.8 and Django 3

Hi We're a Python shop as well as a DB2 shop. We need support for the IBM DB2 driver for Python 3.8. In addition to this, we use Django for our webapps; we develop our own web apps for managing our supercomputers. That being said, as Django 2.2 is...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Delivered

Prevention of Spectrum LSF over-preemption

The current LSF preemption design does not prevent over-preemption (i.e. preempt more jobs than needed). When the preemption of a large low job takes some time like several minutes, the following incoming high priority jobs could preempt other run...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Select multiple KCOP user exits per subscription. CDC for Kafka

Currently, CDC for Kafka allow only 1 KCOP user exit to be select per 1 subscription. Customer would like to select multiple KCOP on the same subscription such as; Arvo live audit exit with Source and Target topic mapping exit.
over 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Heartbeat messages are not available in EP if using delimited format

1. As far as including schema changes in EP messages – at this time they don't have a pressing need so I would say you don't have to worry about that. However, they do want/need to see heartbeat messages. The manual says heartbeat messages are n...

Update CDC as to being able to replicate multibyte enabled columns without doing conversion when contained data type is single byte

RE : Case TS003082492 - December 2019 We’re replicating new files which now contains DBCS-Open data type columns. However, the contained data is single byte characters only. CDC/IIDR insist on handling these columns as Unicode and converting data,...
over 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Zero Downtime during Online CRM Application Migration

Problem Statement : Transaction 1 (T1) is intended to delete and subsequently insert few records to a table TB1. The business logic is like, this T1 should be open and not to commit as well until the end of delete followed by insert operation. ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Conditional Formatting Slider Range

In the Dashboard module, a conditional formatting range can be set on a calculated column in a Table visualization. For example, say I create a categorical color palette for conditional formatting on a % range in a table. The range of the conditio...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Update multiple quick report connection strings

Need a way to quickly update multiple quick report connection stings at once. Update the current utility to allow multi select files, or select a directory (similar to action button migration) OR allow connection strings to be stored in a cell. 1 ...
over 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration