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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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Need to modify jobcards related to the Db2 system

Our special challenge: We are using the SCHENV parameter in the JCL to route the job to the right LPAR. Currently we include a note in the jobcards and every user has to change the variable: ==MSG> DB2 Admin: EDIT generated JCL ==MSG> 000001...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

External Table handle CRLF in data

The EXTERNAL TABLE capability of DB2 Warehouse cannot handle CSV files that contain CRLF characters in the data when the record delimiter is also CRLF. This is a very common, RFC4180 compliant format (see 2.6) that is produced when saving as CSV f...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Data Flow Designer GitHub/BitBucket Integration

We are using bitbucket through command line for all our code migration activities. We were hoping to see Data Flow Designer provide a UI based integration with BitBucket and GitHub. However the gap is that for the connectivity to work, GIT needs s...
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Adding session close info into INFO log.

When the SSM is running as normal level log, we need to have into info logs all metrics that will be interesting to know when we reach SSM limitation. THe most important metric for use to have is : - Active live session- Yield taskbut others metri...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 2 Future consideration

Accessing Dataconnector in conductor using python from GPU server

Hello Team, we have setup a connector in GPU to access HDFS from our CPU cluster. However, i am able to access the file in HDFS using spark but not using python. I would like to understand how to access HDFS using python commands. Connector Name: ...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Future consideration

Functionality/API to undeploy SIGs on hosts

Spectrum conductor provides APIs and UI functionality to deploy SIGs to all or selected cluster members. There are at times corruption on the member nodes due to disk out of space or misconfiguration, or state issues. This feature should clean up ...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Future consideration

Column encryption, select rows with different passwords without errors

When using char/varchar columns with the option of encryption each user can choose his own password and more worse multiple passwords. All is well in case I read the data without decrypt() then I see the raw data for encrypected data and the real ...
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Physical MDM Suspect Duplicates improvements

Product is Data stewardship UI System : Physical MDMSuspected Duplicate Process Application Description : issue 1 - Cannot Freeze the ID, Name etc. in preview collapse screen. These to be visible at all times. And scroll bar to be available at the...
almost 6 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Future consideration

Additional company locales Moldavian ro_MD and Georgian ka_GE

Our customers want new locales of company attributes (Moldavian ro_MD and Georgian ka_GE). One can observe a full locales set at "Data Model Manager -> Security -> Company Attributes" screen. On the top section of company setup there are 2 s...
almost 6 years ago in Product Master 1 Future consideration

pureScale support HADR multiple standbys

It is a current limitation that in pureScale HADR can only support one standby. It is a requirement to be able to support more than one standbys, typically with one of the standby in the same data centre as the primary, and another standby in a re...
about 6 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration