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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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Allow for FTM Console to point to a read on standby instance of database

We've seen in the past that operators running "bad" queries on the FTM console (say, searching for all transmissions, loading the raw data of a 100 MB file, etc) can cause performance issues for live transactions. We would like to be able to point...
about 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

cloud storage capability

SPSS does not have the functionality to retrieve and/or save data and output to the cloud. This seems way out of date and should be easily correctable. The measurable benefits would be less complicated logistics in loading and saving files and tim...
about 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 3 Not under consideration

Enhancing names of docker images for different instances

Information from Case numbers: TS002979327 and TS002990656 We are testing datastage 11.7.1 (kubernetes version) In case# TS002979327, following was recommended: ----- 2) you needed to modify your /etc/hosts file on your client machine with:<...
about 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Support Automatically Convert Numeric SQL Type(to Decimal or etc) for File Connector Stage to Parquet Format

Problem : We need to migrate data from SQL Server to Parquet Format. One of the data type in the SQL Server is Numeric type. We will run the migration job process using RCP. Workaround : 1. We need to change data type to another type, but we ar...
about 6 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Ability to append to a file when performing an export

When exporting data to files, every export should be in a different file. And it the business requirement is to have all data in the same file, then it is necessary to do that manually with something external to db2.
about 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Have License Scheduler Automatically Prune its Database

LSF License Scheduler can create a database directory that log's token usage by feature. Over years, this directory can become cluttered, and impact License Scheduler performance. There should be a setting in License Scheduler to prune that direct...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Not under consideration

Improve RAS of License Scheduler

"Presently, License Scheduler, when placed in debug mode it becomes unstable, and will not respond to client requests due to all the blocking loops inside of the tool, including logging. It also lacks TRACE levels that improve the tuning of debug ...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Make File upload size role based so that administrators can have control over the upload limit

Currently our management wants to give file upload limit for external users and Internal users. More for Internal and less for externals - Cannot do that
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Turn off .json file creation and check-in into Bitbucket

When the DS job is checked into Bitbucket, then along with the .isx file, a .json file also gets checked into Bitbucket. There is no value add here for the .json file and we cannot ignore all .json files since we might have a .json file for a java...
about 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Allow BACKUP on a split mirror system to include log files

This request is about the following scenario: production database is running on HOST1 split mirror is taken on HOST1 (with SET WRITE SUSPEND) and image is taken to HOST2 we want to offload the BACKUP operation to HOST2 (to avoid the overhead of b...
about 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration