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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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Externel table support for: parquet, orc (big data formats)

Currently a DB2 external table support file formats like: CSV nad TXT; and there is also support for external cloud locations like S3, COS, Azure. The option to load data directly from a cloud data lake in hadoop file formats like: parquet, orc, a...
over 4 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Add Tenant ID Parameter to Extension JSON

Add a Parameter for Tenant ID to Extensions JSON Files. For Example... For the entire extension:{ "name":"Sample_Context_Menu_Item", "comment": "This extension will add a new menu item to the context menu for all report objects.", "comment": "The ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

File inclusion and file exclusion filtering in crawler

The Dutch Ministry of Defense is using Watson Discovery for text document archiving purposes as well as text document analysis from these archives. They have experience with Watson Explorer Content Analytics and are migrating to Watson Discovery. ...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Allow SpeechTo Text to accept mp3 files

SpeechToText accepts WAV and FLAC. Both formats are lossless but they're also huge and not in the same format of podcasts on the web. So please add support for MP3 files to SpeechToText.
about 9 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Delivered

create indexes for external tables

External tables are a great asset for ETL, and extending a bit the concept, they could be the base for a great ETL client.Often, one external table is the source of several ETL tasks, therefore it must be read sequentially several times, even if t...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Configure the "namespace" and "name" attributes generated by the CDC replication engine for Kafka

Description of the issue: We want to generate Java classes from the schema registry subjects associated to target topics in order to deserialize the keys and values of Avro messages written to this topics by the CDC replication engine for Kafka of...
about 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Provide out of box logging capability instead of having to resort to Groovy to write to log files

This would allow developers to instrument the pipeline and write key / custom logging to the log file. It could be implemented similar to how we allow creation of rules between stages
9 months ago in StreamSets 1 Needs more information

Prioritizing IBM products on the WKC/MANTA integrated experience, including standalone Cognos and standalone DataStage

While we understand that standalone DataStage and standalone Cognos are currently on the roadmap to be supported in the WKC/MANTA integrated experience for the E2E technical data lineage solution, putting/prioritizing them on the next release woul...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Search project assets by keywords

Problem: We try to search a specific asset in the project, but fail to get it if we didn't write the whole asset path or name from begining of the asset path. This would be very inconvenient when we got lots of data assets in the project. Expected...
about 3 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Planned for future release

Compression for automatic DB2 backups

DB2 LUW includes a solution for automatic backup creation, which is enabled by AUTO_MAINT and AUTO_DB_BACKUP parameters and configured by the 'AUTO_BACKUP' maintenance policy XML..The policy XML file does not allow to specify options to enable bac...
over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration