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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.

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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IIS 11.7 Configure the Operations Console to use the ssh program rather than the rsh

Context: IIS on Hadoop is configured by using engine tier on edge node topology. When you run your job on this environment and if you want analyze the performance stats on each worker node then its not available because the communication protocol ...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Fix errors for apdiag on large systems

Multiple times now when running apdiag collect with option "--spus all" we get an error and the logs are not collected. ips/spu_all_logs e13n1 [Fail] (in run step) (108/130) ERROR: Timeout running command (timeout: 1800). Timeout can be increased ...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Transparent LDAP Authentication for Informix

The Informix (AVL) customer T-Systems/Deutsche Telekom AG requests transparent LDAP authentication for Informix. Last year T-Systems/Deutsche Telekom AG replaced the complete HP-UX hardware for the application REBELL/Ironman by IBM Power AIX machi...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Full support for Gitlab in PA/PAW

At the moment you can only connect to Gitlab from PA/PAW using SSH. However, it should be possible to connect to Gitlab using Username and Password or Access Token.
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

With out installing symphony binaries , we can make compute server with copying of entire compute working symphony directory

Hello IBM, we make symphony compute server with out installing ibm symphony binaries with we can copy entire working symphony directory from working compute host. copy bashrc and ssh keys then you can start the compute server with ego service Ex: ...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Under review

Manta microservices should restart automatically on failure.

Current State: 1. When a Manta user scans a large amount of SAS scripts or MS SQL tables, Manta Flow Server crashes due to out of memory (TS016760059). The cause of the memory issue is being addressed by the issue, but this product idea is this: a...
over 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2

Create an API for IFI reads (306) so Log-Reading Software does NOT need to be APF-Authorized

Like a lot of shops, we replicate a lot of our Enterprise data from our programmatic Db2 for z/OS environment to other Db2s and other off-platform DBMSes for MI and analytics, and for high availability. IIDR now provides the ability to do this via...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

About /run/user/$uid

Could you please make "/run/user/$uid" the same for both ssh and interactive jobs? when user logon the host, /run/user/$uid is created by pam_systemd and used for storing files used by running processes for that user. When a user logs out, a...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 3 Not under consideration

Git SSH Support

Planning Analytics git integration needs support SSH protocol for GIT connections. Having to use a local bare repository is too cumbersome of a work around.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Connect to existing Docker Job to get inside Container

Ability for a User to connect or attach to existing none interactive Job from terminal, that User schedule by bsub, to get access inside Docker Container.This is to be able to troubleshoot from inside running Docker Container. This is critical fea...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered