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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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



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Unwanted consolidation/aggregation of XML data

I am using XML Output Stage in DataStage 11.3, to generate an XML chunk. Assume my input has rows like these (simplified):InvoiceNo SupplierVAT SupplierCountry SupplierName123 VAT1 NL Annette456 VAT1 NL Annette789 VAT1 NL AnnetteH147 VAT1 NL Annet...
almost 9 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

File Connector running on Windows does not support HDFS file formats supported under Linux

Running Data Engine on a Windows 64-bit environment and want to use File Connector to access AVRO files. The Linux version of the software supports this as of 11.5 FP1. If the data engine is installed on Windows, this functionality isn't availabil...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Specify execution hosts per application

To introduce an application level HOSTS parameter in application profile definition in lsb.application configuration file. Similar to HOSTS in queue definition in lsb.queues, this parameter should specify execution hosts (host groups) selection po...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Cloud Access using syntax

Our company is moving to a cloud. I need to be able to use SPSS base on cloud located files. I have tried using a mapped drive but it was slow and inconsistent. I use syntax to get and save files all day. I need to be able to do my job when we hav...
almost 9 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

LSF is not starting correctly with LDAP duing node boots

Every time we reboot nodes LSF jobs will switch from RUN to PEND status. We have found knowledge base document that states using LDAP with LSF is a known issue. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSENRW_4.2.1/release_notes/known_issues.ht...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Allow download after job completion through Desktop Client to be requested when submitting job from web portal

After hotfix to Desktop Client 10.0.1 a filter for files to download after job completion is displayed in the submission form also on the web portal, but it will have no effect, as only jobs submitted from the Desktop Client get downloaded.
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

[DUP81511] Change the structure of the shared SSM history folder, to allow secure use bu different execution users and groups

Platform Symphony (Spectrum Symphony) SSMs keep the sessions history files in a shared location, for example /gpfs/platform/soam/work/history Before PS 7, all apps SSMs were filling history/ folder directly, causing it to store 1000s of files and ...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Delivered

Server File capability for Desktop Client

The same submission form in the Desktop Client does not include the ability to specify a server file as an input or include file - as opposed to the Application Center web portal. This should be easy to implement, as both forms are otherwise ident...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

LSF Desktop Client - Filter and Compression for Download Result feature

Download Result feature needs a configurable filter for which files from the job folder should be downloaded upon completion of job. The files that match the filter should also be compressed before transferring them.
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Due to the network glitch, vemkd on primary master does not go down while the new vemkd on the backup master is starting

1) The VEMKD on the failover host cannot properly start as the previous VEMKD still holds the lock on the status file. 2) When the network glitch is over, the master takes over and the failover lim shuts down the VEMKD by sending a SIGTERM3) The V...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 2 Delivered