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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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In Pipelines' DataStage nodes using Parameter Sets, add an option to use a paramfile

In some scenarios, the values of the DataStage parameters in a Parameter Set must be loaded from a file at runtime. This option is possible through DataStage paramfiles. However, when you're running DataStage jobs from Pipelines using a DataStage ...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Add the option for a columns with changed values column to the Change Capture stage

Currently the Change Capture stage will give you the information (in the Column change_code) if your After Data is a Copy (0), Insert (1), Delete (2) or Edit (3), it would be good to have the option to generate an addition column change_columns (V...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Specifying RTN Codes to Ignore

• current situation: • If the RTN code is not 0 in the stream job step and the general job step, the job step will be treated as Failure, and the job will also have a Status of Failure. • Improvement Request: • I want to set a return code to be ig...
6 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Submitted

enhance the functionality of expression editor in reporting to align with data module functionality

for example from your data module documentation: ability to validate the whole statement, or only selected segments of code. Preview columns and rows in your projected calculation, filter, or table. If the syntax is not correct, the columns are no...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

UI hides reject codes for items accepted in review

When an item has been accepted in Review, the 'Rejects and Warnings' and 'Total Validation count' has IQA result removed When an item is flagged as having "Image too dark" issues, the 'Rejects and Warnings' and 'Total Validation count' values in t...
7 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Submitted

Universal Watson Discovery

Universal Watson Discovery could be a powerful AI-driven knowledge and financial intelligence system, integrating IBM Watson Discovery's NLP, AI search, and document analysis with your broader Open Wealth Autonomous Nexus (OWAN), Nano Inheritance ...
7 months ago in Watson Discovery 2 Submitted

Enable CTL files code scan in IFPC Analysis

Hi Team, As per the framework at Dell, Teradata Utilities scripts are invoked from IFPC project specific directories which is limiting the lineage capability of Manta between these two technologies despite both onboarded and scanned. For the Manta...
8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Restore documentation to CPLEX Studio installer

CPLEX Studio 22.1.2 did away with the "doc" folder containing documentation for the components, including in particular the Javadoc documentation for the Java API to CPLEX. Having a local copy of the reference manuals is desirable when working off...
8 months ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Submitted

db2prereqcheck on AIX should detect presence of a soft link for /usr/bin/python3 as it is required by some pureScale cluster components

db2prereqcheck contains code to check the presence of python3. This is required for pureScale (GPFS in particular). However, if the softlink in /usr/bin/python3 is missing, when upgrading from Db2 11.5.8 to 11.5.9, db2prereqcheck doesn't log any m...
over 1 year ago in Db2 0 Submitted

Enable TDM to create a trusted connection and user switching

In a Db2 environment with very strict security and RCAC enabled to secure data on the row level, it is needed to know the actual userid that is driving the request. Application servers usually connect using a system account and this is also common...
8 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted