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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Provide the ability to delete all associated actions when deleting a maintenance window

When testing the generation of autonomic actions into a maintenance window, it is sometimes very helpful to be able to delete all of the actions that have been generated into a maintenance window. This is true even if the actions are generated as ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 2 Delivered

FTM dependency on Websphere Scheduler prevents hot/hot availability across data centers

FTM for Digital Payments is dependent on the underlying Websphere Scheduler to run scheduled framework tasks. It is also a WebSphere best practice is to not run a WebSphere cell across data centers. This leaves customers with an implementation tha...
over 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 1 Delivered

User segregation within Instance Groups

Each user needs their own storage space WITHIN an instance group. MUST have private storage each user will see, as well as common space to work as a team on. Keep models and notebooks separate from (common) data, if desired. MUST prevent one user ...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.3 1 Delivered

Ability to Sample Uniformly 1000 Rows (or more if engine permits) in Data Refinery.

Many times, data comes ordered by some index or column. If this is the case, data exploration and visualization will be biased towards one part of the data. I propose to let the user pick what 1000 rows to display: first 1000, last 1000 or a unifo...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Data Refinery: Infer Data Types Automatically

Right now, Data Refinery users need to go column by column changing every type since all columns are read as strings. This is very time consuming and a pain point. It is also a very basic features that all our competitors have.
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Capture Connection Security Type in SMF accounting data

This would allow to determine the security type (i.g., Kerberos or not) and track Kerberos adoption based on individual transactions. Unfortunately, the IFCID 319 data cannot be correlated with the specific transactions.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

Allow management of the HPSS tables' organization keys and associated grooming via Data Studio

We have a need to be able to manage the organization keys and associated grooming operations via Data Studio. We seem to be able to do this with the Shadow Tables but are not able to do this with the HPSS Tables. We (DBA) typically have no need to...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 2 Delivered

Remove 32768 limit to DSMAX

DSMAX field (DSMAX subsystem parameter) The DSMAX subsystem parameter specifies the maximum number data sets that can be open at one time. How DB2 enforces the limit depends on the DSMAX value: • If the value is 32,768 or greater, new OPEN state...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Timestamp formats in AS datasource

Please consider extending the list of supported timestamp formats to include this format in the next versions of AS. Now in Analytic Server, it seems that there is no format in the data source settings as follows: yyyy-mm-dd hh:MM:ss, for example ...
almost 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler 1 Delivered

External Tables - export whole database

There should be a functionality to create external tables automatically for all tables in a database, similar to dbexport or onpladm. Unfortunately, not all data types support external tables fully (timeseries, for example). Datablade data types s...
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Delivered