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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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Application rotation or maintenance of created files in /tmp (ex. snappy)

The product leaves temporary files into /tmp directory that are not properly taked care of. That means that external processes must be carried out in order to not flood that directory. Could you please implement into the product any mean of addres...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Under review

When we run the report, we need a function that generates a dynamically permanent link

Currently, there is no ability to create a permanent link, creating a permanent link by using the 'ReportPath function'.In this case, if we change the File Name or Path, permanent link that we created before the change can not be linked.Like a Reo...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Let a change of a SYS*_GROUP in the dbm cfg be reflected in the db2audit secmaint.del-file next to/instead of in db2diag.log

For security monitoring purposes every 30 minutes our production db2audit-files are archived, extracted and uploaded to a special security server for analysis purposes. However very important information is missing: when changing a SYS*_GROUP, the...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Excel Import to Include all Characteristics of CSV/Text Import

The Excel data source node frequently identifies the data type of a column incorrectly. In the variable and fixed length text import nodes, you can override this behavior under the "Data" tab. This functionality does not exist for Excel. This crea...
almost 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Control Metric Dump for each dispatcher independently

Currently enabling the Metric Dump in Cognos Administration (DISP.MetricDumpEnabled) causes all servers to start dumping metric based on the last server entered in the value field in Cognos Administration. The metricdumpconfiguration.xml of the la...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DataStage: support RFC4180

request RFC4180 support in "Sequential File Stage" or "File Connector" http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4180.txt Case:TS000994774RTC 96743
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Maintain original File within WDS

I have been working on few projects where the client has PDF documents. This happens to be the case with my current client. I have to ingest those PDF documents to WDS and keep the original in some file store for displaying it when the document i...
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Delivered

LSF API should offer asynchronous event handler for job status notifications

It would be nice if LSF had functionality for job event notification similar to LDAP's LDAP_SERVER_NOTIFICATION_OID control (and Microsoft's Active Directory has this, as an LDAP implementation), where you can use an extended LDAP asynchronous sea...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Provide Option to Automatically Pull and Prune Containers from Exec Hosts

Currently LSF allows defining of an application profile to pull images selectively based upon configuration. However there is now way to provide pre-staging of images, and pruning of under utilized images. The customer would like support similar t...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

encode Active report lists and xtabs in JSON, not XML

currently the lists and crosstabs in an active report have thier supporting data encodeed in XML. This makes the resulting MHT file very large. All other visualzations have thier data encoded in JSON, which results in much smaller MHTs.Please cons...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration