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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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  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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Add retention policies to extract files

In Optim Test Data Management the Optim Extract file is only of use for a limited period and can contain sensitive information if it's the initial extract from a production system. Practically customers do not wish to, nor should they hang on to e...
over 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Include a repeat counter for execution multiple times in Hierarchical stage.

Currently I know of a number of companies that are using the Hierarchical Stage (such as Walmart and Vanguard) for pulling data from cloud services such as ServiceNow or Archer. Because there is no looping structure within the Enterprise pallet (e...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Python analytics users need an IDE

Jupyter notebooks are nice for data exploration and presentations. Proper data science work for production needs to be done in an IDE.PyCharm or something similar would be perfect.
over 6 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Functionality already exists

Data Asset Status

Running a flow will populate a data asset and may make one think that it is available. We should be able to quickly view in the UI if that data asset is available.
over 6 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Limiting the query data size in LSF

We recently experienced problems with mbatchd due to the size of the query data. The following is IBM support team's comments. Based on query_info.log last Saturday, I saw many lines with same data size during 1 second. Each line indicates 1 query...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Teradata Connector Enable Data Encryption

There are situations were the data connection between Datastage and Teradata need to be encrypted to transfer sensitive information. Currently the option exists in ODBC, but not in the Teradata Connector.
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Source control for Information Server DataStage with GITEA and Flexibilty

Hi, As per the case number below we are requesting to have the certified version of the GITEA that is compatible with the future version of Data Stage. TS002447613
over 6 years ago in DataStage 5 Not under consideration

Enhance DISPLAY GROUPBUFFERPOOL output

Enhance DISPLAY GROUPBUFFERPOOL output to display both the current and the high-water-mark number of updated data pages in a global buffer pool. Since the AUTOALTER facility may change the number of pages in the buffer, this new information should...
almost 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Run SQL queries having joins on the tables

We use the Relational Archive Facility in IBM's InfoSphere Optim z/OS Solution to archive and then purge the data. We have created Access Definitions (AD) and each AD has a set of tables with SQL WHERE clause for some of them for extracting the da...
over 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 6 Not under consideration

Push Back for Gooogle BigQuery

I want to be able to push back in BigQuery when selecting data. I want to read and write if possible
over 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release