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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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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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business term extraction for a FIPS enabled system

Even after the upgrade to 3.0.1/1.0.7.1, we are still not able to use the business term extraction tool. Just downloading/uploading the sample pdf provided on the UI gives us "Error Uploading File. Click here to try again." message.
about 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Is a defect

Accessing Dataconnector in conductor using python from GPU server

Hello Team, we have setup a connector in GPU to access HDFS from our CPU cluster. However, i am able to access the file in HDFS using spark but not using python. I would like to understand how to access HDFS using python commands. Connector Name: ...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Future consideration

Ability to control the number of XQE log files in logs/XQE folder

Currently there appears to be no other way to control the number of log files to kept in logs/XQE folder, other than manually cleaning them up. Client would like to have a feature similar to cogserver.log files to allow only specific number of fil...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request to remove duplicate db2readlog API reads of the same log file on scan start

As described in the PMR associated with this request, on first read request by the db2readlog API we see the same log file is requested to be opened 3 times. First retrieve is to map the input LRI to a log file. Second retrieve to convert the inpu...
over 10 years ago in Db2 / Replication 0 Future consideration

New ARCHIVE LAG TARGET parameter request.

DB2 doesn't have the parameter which will ensure that each archived log file contains no more than n seconds of changes (like Oracle's ARCHIVE_LAG_TARGET), for example, 1800 seconds. So, if DB2 will fill up the log file before the expiration of 18...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Parallelize the logs in the online backup image

If you have a large amount of transaction logs created during an online backup operation, and logs are include in the backup image, at the end of the backup Db2 adds the log files to the backup file. Right now it appears to be a serialized operati...
about 5 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Programmability errors should propagate as SPSS errors, by default

Currently Python, R and Java errors are not propagated as SPSS errors. Also, these errors do not end up in the .jnl file. Running the following oneliner will propagate a Python error as an SPSS error import sys, spss; sys.excepthook = lambda type_...
over 10 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

DBM parameter just for DB2diag file

Currently we have db2diag files as part of dbm parameter (DIAGPATH) and all the files (db2diag.log, events,nfy,bin,stack,stmm,dump) going into the same directory. The challenge is in case of issues, we see huge dump files produced (sometimes 40gb ...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Ansible solution for USPS & QSAVI modules periodic reference files updates

IBM releases monthly/quarterly updates to the reference files for both USPS & QSAVI wherein we need to manually login to the IBM passport advantage portal and download the files and then apply them on our environment. We are looking for an aut...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Let the MDM Docker containers use environment settings from outside the image

The current Docker installable containers use static environment settings for for example database server, ldap server, kafka server, etc. This means we need to create an image for every environment increasing the possibility to have different cod...
about 5 years ago in Master Data Management 4 Not under consideration