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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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Support the use of UV instead of Anaconda

UV is very quickly becoming the new industry standard for managing Python packages. It is extremely fast compared to Anaconda and in our HPC plaform this would resolve many performance-related issues in Conda package/env deployments and updates. O...
8 days ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 0 Submitted

Spark job to be able to access, read and write on external database without the credentials being exposed anywhere (instance, logs, job metadata, etc…)

We want to create a job on a Spark instance of the Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark that runs a Spark application reading from and writing to an Exasol database. To enable database access, we need to pass our user credentials into the job....
about 1 month ago in Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

Implement OAUTH with mTLS

We want to implement an improvement in OAUTH authentication with the introduction of mTLS (multual TLS). New security requirements and implementations in communication with external APIs between different companies with open communication on the i...
14 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 1 Under review

Expose Field Analysis through REST API

The newly introduced field analysis is a very helpful feature - in order to use this in external tools, we would want to have the JSON data that the field analysis returns to the UI exposed vie the REST API.
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 2 Under review

Ability to paste '-' characters as 0.

0 values formatted as a '-' in Excel cannot be pasted into Planning Analytics. This causes a spreading error. Users often format 0 values as a '-'. It would be helpful if Planning Analytics could interpret '-' as a 0 on paste.
29 days ago in Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

Spark binaries and configuration files in Spark deployment directory should reside in read-only file system

Currently during provisioning of Spark instance groups we have to specify a deployment directory on NFS which does not exist prior to IG creation. Due to security concerns and software best practices we would like Spark Instance group creation to ...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

Allow option for or default option to turn "autocomplete" flag to off for password authentication in regards to the Jupyter notebooks

It is a low priority security vulnerability for web servers to allow password auto-completion. In most apps, this is a pretty simple fix, to configure the option to allow "autocomplete" to set to off. When I opened a ticket with IBM, their was not...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

Add a Trace Security in order to understand how a right is evaluated by the engine

As for business rules, PAL/TM1, security could be a mix of data and/or rules on the system security objects. For business rules, we can use the "trace calculations" which is really a great feature. For security, we can only use... our brain so a "...
over 2 years ago in Analytics Engine 3 Not under consideration

Wells Fargo want to have Elastic Filebeat & Logstash applications updated to v8.13 or higher for the embedded products lifecycle management

Reducing risk of vulnerabilities or insure ability to support.
6 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

Terminating Client mode Spark cluster from IBM Spectrum Conductor

IBM Spectrum Conductor supports Spark clusters in both, "cluster" and "client", modes. The "cluster" mode spark-cluster contains a dedicated spark-driver that IBM Spectrum Conductor manages. Hence, when such spark-cluster creates any issue with th...
6 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted