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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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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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



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read multiple table names in oracle partitioning mode in Oracle connector stage

In IS v9.1.2 DataStage is throwing an error while reading two physically partitioned tables from oracle database using Oracle connector stage when oracle partition mode is settled . This functionality is not available in oracle connector stage. Er...
over 9 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

[Usability][RFE] config file change log and monitor

config files especially consumerTrees.xml is often to changed. We would request a change to track who and what have changed.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 4 Not under consideration

Dynamic File Splitter Stage

I would like a file stage that would dynamically create flat files based on a field or a combination of fields within the input data. By dynamic I mean that if the field being used to determine the split today has 3 unique values then 3 separate f...
over 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Maintaining connections with zOS DB2

This is really for DataStage but this interface prevents that selection. Various teams are struggling with maintaining connections with zOS DB2. The most pressing is when using the bulk loader option in the DB2 connector stage. The bulk loader bui...
over 9 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic SSM Resource Group History Files to SFS

Dynamic SSM resource groups work well in Symphony 7 but for one issue. By definition a dynamic resource group does not contain management hosts but consists of regular compute hosts. These hosts do not know of the shared file system where session ...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Not under consideration

Add Partition read to BigIntegrate ODBC stage

When reading from HIVE tables using ODBC stage, we should be able to read from multiple partitions at the same time. For ex: if the HIVE table has more than 1 data file (has 5 different part files), then when reading data from this HIVE table usin...
almost 10 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Enable File List node interaction within Collaboration and Deployment Services job step setup.

Functionality to be able to interact with File List nodes when setting up Modeler Job Steps within Collaboration and Deployment Services was added in 17.1 but did not function correctly. The current fix (PI57959) will remove these features to allo...
almost 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Enhancements to DB2 Ingest

In DB2 Ingest , need an option to specify that character delimiters are to be parsed as column data, when the data files do not have a character delimiters, like nochardel file type modifier in load.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Journal security

Context: the client is loading a high number of manual journals for all entities on a monthly basis through the menu Transfer/ External data/ Import from flat files In Cognos Controller, it is true that when a user is working in the menu Company /...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Support for Office 365/click-to-run and 64 bit versions

The Controller Link add-in only supports 32 bit msi versions of Office/Excel. Many users have a need of using 64 bit versions due to large files, and furthermore we are using the click-to-run versions (not msi), also not supported. Micorsoft are p...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration