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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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Surrogate Key Reset after failure of parallel DataStage job as state file is left as Truncated.

If a job fails at the while the parallel engine transformer function NextSurrogateKey() is updating the key state file,it is possible that the state file will be left in a truncated state. To a later job, the TRUNCATED state file looks just a NEW ...
over 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Users to provision their Data

Data Click is part of Information Server Metadata server . Which allows users to provision their data . So far this product support few databases . Request is to support below databases Teradata to HadoopTeradata to green plumFile to whateverWhate...
over 9 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Automate Service Framework Task creation. Ability to export and import Service Framework Tasks definitions

Is it possible to export service framework configurations from one environment such as Dev and import those same configurations into a new environment such as SIT? The task of doing this manually from env to env is tedious and time consuming as we...
almost 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Not under consideration

Distribution key support for accelerator-only (AOTs) tables missing

Db2 PTF UI72862 introduced a new DDL feature to support distribution keys for AOTs. This doesn't work in the current Administration Tools Version. The DDL comments containing the distribution key definition for the AOT should to be passed to the a...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Blank substitution lookup table - Controller WEB

Hi Lab In Cognos Controller WEB, we are creating lookup tables for import from Excel/csv-files. These import files contain rows where intercompany data has no counterpart information (blank). In Controller Classic we normally translate this blank ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

LSF: default duration for external resources

Manage default duration for external resources, mainly for license resources. Currently, default duration for external resources is infinite (job duration). Can you please give new facilities to: - manage default duration for external resources, s...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

In FTM DP 3.2.4 USA Version, we are trying to process incoming Canada ACH CPA005 PAD files via FTM. CPA005 is converted to ISF and then feed to Digital Payments. But in the digital payments screen, some of the fields are not populated\mapped as shown in screenshot. We are unsure about the fields to be mapped in ISF, in order to get below highlighted fields populated in DP screen.

FTM-DP UI Field Name Inbound Transmission Hierarchy -> Parties -> Originator -> Identifier Inbound Transmission Hierarchy -> Parties -> Originator -> Name Inbound Transmission Hierarchy -> Total Credit Difference Also IBM team...
almost 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 0 Planned for future release

Improve integration between CPD Project, JupyterLab and Git Repository

When new GitPoject created, in the JupyterLab session's root folder following folder was created: project_data_assets project_git_repo Actually we should put the asset files (*.csv, *.txt, etc.) on /project_data_assets/data_asset/ and the notebook...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Delivered

SIG specific data and logs clean up

Conductor clean up service currently supports periodic clean up of data and logs with global cluster level retention parameters. Request is to support custom log/data retentions of files at per SIG level overriding global settings.
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 1 Delivered

File Connector - reject link not supported

Hi, We are using Parquet format files and there appears to be an issue with File Connector not supporting the Reject links for Parquet. This is a road blocker for our NextGen Migration as existing BDFS stage jobs will be replaced with File Connect...
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered