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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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License Manager enables administrator to change check-license-interval

Currently, I think SPSS Modeler are using the OEM functionality to manage the number of licenses. However, since the license check interval is fixed (approximately every 5 minutes), when someone finishes using SPSS Modeler, the license is not rele...
about 2 hours ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Submitted

Pipelines in Next Gen DataStage requires compilation in a protected environment ( Production environment )

Next Gen DataStage: At present, pipelines require compilation in a protected environment (Production). This process updates the last modified date on the log, which raises concerns about tracking changes and identifying what modifications were int...
about 14 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Information Server 0 Submitted

Add individual Agent task level information into Cognos Audit Package

Using Audit package we would like to get individual task level information defined within an Agent. Currently there is no table/column in the Audit package to fetch that information, only overall Agent level data is present.
about 16 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

Knowledge Catalog allow users to create more robust and consistent rules by directly incorporating existing reference datasets,

For reference data, we propose enhancing them by enabling their use within data quality rule and definitions. This functionality would allow users to create more robust and consistent rules by directly incorporating existing reference datasets, pa...
about 18 hours ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Need a browse through GUI when configuring Knowledge Catalog using Data Virtualization and configuring data protection rules

Need a browse through GUI when configuring Knowledge Catalog using Data Virtualization and configuring data protection rules. Today, when creating Data Protection rules you need to type the column header names you want to select and it is very err...
about 18 hours ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Allow IKC with Data Virtualization and data protection rules in bulk

From the IKC GUI, the customer is requesting the ability to do IKC with data virtualization and allow to configure data protection rules in bulk. This is to enhance security (less errors) and similar speed up deployment of many data protection rul...
about 18 hours ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Needs more information

In CP4D Data Virtualization add an easy way to refresh DB metadata

Customer has so many data sources, it would be a full time job to track what DB metadata changed. This is an enterprise customer and they have hundreds of not thousands of DB and the goal is to govern all data. For example, if a customer adds a co...
about 18 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Data Virtualization 0 Submitted

Configurable retry mechanism for failed jobs within IKC

We would like to propose the addition of a configurable retry mechanism for failed jobs within IKC. Specifically, the feature should allow users to define retry parameters such as:• Retry interval (e.g., every 5 minutes)• Maximum number of retry a...
about 18 hours ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Issue an appropriate message instead of a dump in case of 00E20015 occurrence

A clear DSN... message indicating the problem ASCB is more helpful than a dump. The asid (in R2) could be already another ASCB, so this is ambiguous. The dump could be supressed in my opinion. We have such a lot of cases in which we are forced to ...
about 19 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

Support Cursor-Based Naming for Result Sets in DB2 REST Services

When a Db2 stored procedure returns multiple result sets through the REST interface, the invoke/execution JSON response content contains a part with sequentially numbered result sets ("resultSet1", "resultSet2", etc.) in the order the cursors were...
about 19 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review