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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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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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Issue with data purging : Wastage of vertica license

As discussed in the PMR, due to bad design of data purging in PA 9, there are two issues 1. Wastage of vertica license i.e. at times data is retained in the DB even beyond data retention period defined in SYS_tables_to_parition. 2. PA admin has no...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Data connector for CDH 7.x

Actually there is no Cloudera CDH 7x compatible connector. An improvement would be to be able to benefit from a datasource connector on Hive, HDFS and Impala services. We could use Optim DP and TDM either to read data from Hadoop, or to build data...
over 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

While capturing a Risk Event, system error appears requesting end user to refresh the page (APAR PH30431)

The system error impacts end users who may lose data captured and be required to do rework. This creates resistance to use of the system. Although the help text does guide the user to navigate this defect - it is not optimal.
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Power9 zlib accelerator for backup and log file compression

Db2 supports NX842 accelerator on AIX. This has some limitation like restoring of such an backup image is only possible on AIX and cannot be combined with AME and AMS and also requires a license key to enable it.Compression and decompression in so...
over 4 years ago in Db2 2 Delivered

Notebook-based dashboards

Dynamic dashboards are an interesting idea, but they require you to save the data to a data source and then recreate it with Cognos tools. Since the visuals were likely already done in the notebook, this is making a user go through additional, pos...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENABLE ONCHECK DATA CROSS-CHECKING FOR FUNCTIONAL INDEX

oncheck -cI on a functional index still says:"Non vanilla index. data crosschecking not enabled" After so many years supporting functional indices we should consider enabling this. I had a customer with a corruption in a functional index on a huge...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Use Cognos Data Module Editor for general use as query generation frontend in CP4D e.g. as a component in Data Management Console

Intro: HUK came up with a requirement to use Cognos (-Analytics) Frontend as a modeling tool do define complex queries. Their use case was mostly a data preparation / ELT which is not well suited for Cognos. But they have sound knowledge performin...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

JSON data type should be supported in PostgreSQL engine as target

Today we cannot replicate JSON data type in Postgresql Database as target. No workaround is available. A critical project is blocked.
over 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

Start IDE with fraction of CPU request or with no cpu request

Today most IDE in WatsonStudio need to be started with 1 CPU. The customer would like the ability to start IDE with franctions of cpu and not a full cpu or even if possible with no cpu request Customer uses Jupyter, Spark and rStudio IDE. Today us...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Cloud pak for Data Watson Studio generating IDE Spark, jupyter, rstudio creates env variables that can affect performance

Customer ran into an issue where all pods in the CPD namespace were slow. A cron job is running in CP4D was suppose to kill idle spark IDE. But there were some pods that were not cleaned. -> https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/WAI-I-102 With the help o...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review