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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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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 Data & AI Roadmaps (http://ibm.biz/Data-and-AI-Roadmaps) - Use this site to view roadmaps for Data & AI products.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://hybridcloudunit-internal.ideas.aha.io/


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Changing XMETA or XMUSR on an existing platform and updating passwords

We would like to have the capability to change the XMETA and XMUSR ids on existing platforms without reinstalling the entire application. The AppServerAdmin .sh command to rotate the password does not work properly for HA setups as well. This is a...
almost 2 years ago in Information Server 0 Delivered

IIS DataStage installer should support TLS

After IIS DataStage is enabled for TLS, a patch installation fails to connect to xmeta.
almost 4 years ago in Information Server 0 Delivered

Establish a BigIntegrate process to clean up scratch and orphan pids on job failure

We are running BigIntegrate 11.5.2 in a 700+ node Hadoop cluster. We are seeing situations when jobs fail that are leaving behind scratch in our scratch space and orphan OSH pids. Two scenarios include: BI job aborts on its own due to Environment ...
over 4 years ago in Information Server 0 Delivered

Auto start Zookeeper, Solr and Kafka after WAS/Engine restart

We are actively using Information Analyzer enterprise wide and with multiple teams. Zookeeper and Solar Services needs restart after IIS WAS and Engine restart, IA thin client error out it needs zookeeper/solar restart Auto start Zookeeper, Solr a...
almost 5 years ago in Information Server 0 Delivered

Support for zookeeper for JDBC/HIVE connection within BigIntegrate

We are requesting that Big Integrate jobs using the JDBC/HIVE connector to use zookeeper in order to provide a load balancing for connections. This is a change to Data Direct driver and we have commitment from IBM and DD to make this change later ...
almost 5 years ago in Information Server 0 Delivered

DataStage - File Connector - Add support of DECIMAL type when reading/ writing PARQUET

Our team uses DataStage for most of the ETL jobs. We want to output the result into HDFS using Parquet format. However, DataStage currently has does not support DECIMAL type (will throw an Exception). This limit will cause all data which contains ...
almost 5 years ago in Information Server 0 Delivered

In-place Upgrade Information Server 11.5 to 11.7

Build a in-place upgrade for IBM Infosphere Information Server Suite to upgrade from version 11.5.x to version 11.7.x. For version 11.5.x there was a mod-pack available to upgrade from version 11.3.x to 11.5. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview....
about 5 years ago in Information Server 0 Delivered

DataStage support Java 1.8

WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5.12 only supports Java 1.8 however the DataStage Engine only supports Java 7.1.3.10 and 7.1.4.5.
over 5 years ago in Information Server 0 Delivered

The current version Windows 10 pro is not supported for install Datastage Client 11.0.5.

We need to install Datastage Client 11.0.5 on Windows 10 pro and is not supported. PMR id = TS000036276
over 5 years ago in Information Server 0 Delivered

Enhanecement request to have file connector accept a list of hosts, and not just a single host name

Client uses orc and Avro HDFS formats, which in turn use File Connector stage instead of Big Data File stage. The file connector leverages WebHDFS and has a “host” property that must be explicitlyset to point to an active name node, in order f...
over 5 years ago in Information Server 0 Delivered