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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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Should make it easy to create references not only to connections, or individual assets (file, table, doc, etc). So including the notion of directory, containers, schemas, etc.

While the individual file or table is useful, more often than not there use cases where their are a set of tables, docs, objects that are related and dependent. It would be very useful to keep that organizational structure and be able to catalog, ...
over 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Enable easy creation of Connections to Object Storage, Message Hub in Catalog

When I go to create a connection in the Catalog the system auto-discovers my Cloudant instance. That's great. I also have a Message Hub instance and an Object Store instance that I'm using as part of a Streaming Pipeline. These do *not* get discov...
over 8 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Function to convert BIT information to another column with CDC

A project using the replication function from IMS to DB2 on Linux is in progress. In customer's IMS application, many BIT items of PL/I are used, and there is a requirement to convert it to a column of bytes on the CDC side. There are many target ...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Connect the Archive data ...

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over 8 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Not under consideration

DSX: expose all Bluemix services under Data Services > Services

In certain situations a DSX user might have to obtain credentials of a service that has been provisioned in Bluemix. Navigating to "Data Services > Services" (main menu) seems to display only a subset of all services that the user has access to...
over 8 years ago in Watson Studio 2 Not under consideration

Import metadata from MySQL tables from any schema in a database using IS Connector Import Wizard

Our organization uses MySQL as a staging DBMS to store data tables that will be used in ETL jobs to feed the analysis environment.These tables are defined by procedures external to IS, usually with the IDR replication product.Development teams nee...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Ability to connect from DSX to HDFS from Biginsights directly using URL hdfs://

Ability to connect to biginsights cluster with spark apis likesc.textFile("hdfs://:8020/tmp/testdata.txt") At moment, Biginsights on cloud doesn't allow remote connection like above from Data science experience.https://datascience.ibm.com/
over 8 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

SPSS Connectivity to MS SSAS

We need the ability to analyse data from Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS). No ability to connect to the MS OLEDB data source exists. The particular instance we are interested in connecting to is configured in tabular mode and so uses ...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Develop a function that don't need to input connection profile password for Data Replication product

when we creating or configuring a datastore which is for a iSeries CDC instance (DB2 for i), we need to input the password for the connection profile like “xxxCDCGR”. If can develop a function that don't need to input password for connection p...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

All Fields Not Passed Through Time Series Model

Fields do not pass through the time series model nugget unless they are part of the time series model, such as a Target, Input, or Split role field. The current workaround is to merge all of the excluded fields to the data beyond the model nugget
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration