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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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Enhancements for "hostsetup"

hostsetup script should be enhanced in the following ways:1) Naming of the startup scripts for SysV init and systemd should be consistent.2) Script should provide option for installing /etc/lsf.sudoers.3) Script should detect /etc/sudoers is prese...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Create SIG directories with REST API

When using the conductor REST API to create a SIG, it assumes that you have already created directories for history, custom settings, notebook data, and notebook extra config. The rest api should create these files and directories on the cluster i...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 2 Not under consideration

DataStage (Unstructured Stage) Append Excel File with Data from a DB2 stage using RCP

This is a CRITICAL feature we need. It has stopped a project. This project is costing DST money and we are going to start looking at alternatives to replace DataStage as the solution!
almost 9 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Provide SAP Server Pack for SAP Application as a SAP Add-On

We will require SAP Server Components need to be provided as SAP Add-on instead of transport protocol files.
almost 9 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

osh.exe and orchadmin.exe are overwritten by installer

Customer is using GTK , while patching one of the head node their osh.exe and orchadmin.exe got replaced . so they have to replace these files everytime there is fixpack or rollup installed. This is known limitation http://www-01.ibm.com/support/d...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

enhance jobstarter argument handling

LSF has a job starter feature that allows for programs to execute just prior to the start of a job. This feature is often used to wrap the execution side of one's job. The arguments to the job are passed to a shell script as part of this execution...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Unwanted consolidation/aggregation of XML data

I am using XML Output Stage in DataStage 11.3, to generate an XML chunk. Assume my input has rows like these (simplified):InvoiceNo SupplierVAT SupplierCountry SupplierName123 VAT1 NL Annette456 VAT1 NL Annette789 VAT1 NL AnnetteH147 VAT1 NL Annet...
about 9 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

File Connector running on Windows does not support HDFS file formats supported under Linux

Running Data Engine on a Windows 64-bit environment and want to use File Connector to access AVRO files. The Linux version of the software supports this as of 11.5 FP1. If the data engine is installed on Windows, this functionality isn't availabil...
about 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Specify execution hosts per application

To introduce an application level HOSTS parameter in application profile definition in lsb.application configuration file. Similar to HOSTS in queue definition in lsb.queues, this parameter should specify execution hosts (host groups) selection po...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Cloud Access using syntax

Our company is moving to a cloud. I need to be able to use SPSS base on cloud located files. I have tried using a mapped drive but it was slow and inconsistent. I use syntax to get and save files all day. I need to be able to do my job when we hav...
about 9 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration