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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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Optimize task execution with task rerun inf in TaskContext

When a Symphony task fails, it is currently re-dispatched and rerun, with each rerun treated as a new execution. The application service code is unaware of whether the task is running for the first time or being retried. We propose including task ...
about 2 hours ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

In Manta Admin UI - cDB2 connection validation should be successful when user is mapped to a DB Group/Role

Why is it useful? This ensures that required permissions needed by IBM Manta is in place. The scanner for cDB2 will produce desired data lineage for cDB2 database. Who would benefit from it? IBM Manta users. How should it work? In Manta Admin UI -...
about 5 hours ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Provide native capability to write metrics to a a standard product eg: prometheus

Platform teams wants pipeline metrics to be available to users through standard platforms such as prometheus. While can be worked around and instrumented, it should be out-of the box
about 6 hours ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Provide out of box logging capability instead of having to resort to Groovy to write to log files

This would allow developers to instrument the pipeline and write key / custom logging to the log file. It could be implemented similar to how we allow creation of rules between stages
about 6 hours ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Password credentials should not show the password once it has been entered. This is a security risk

Customers do not feel secure if the password entered can be shown back on the screen. It should be visible during entry and then permanently starred (***) out. This is how many other UI based applications behave today. Yes, we could tell customers...
about 6 hours ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Simplify expression evaluation notation and reference to variables

Currentlywe need a syntax of $ then a set of curly brackets {} and then a value. and for values, its record:value('/<the attribute>'). The above becomes very convoluted and long when you have a case statement of other long expressions. It wo...
about 6 hours ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Make it easier to achieve advanced data engineering tasks within the UI instead of using Groovy

Currently many advanced tasks requires us to jump out of the standard UI capability and directly into Groovy. It would be worthwhile to consider if these can be done in a UI like framework and still wrapped into a single stage for execution. This ...
about 6 hours ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/SSETS-I-115

It would enable newer capability like HTTP/2 for more streaming like access of our REST api and the data streamed back over it
about 7 hours ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Provide API auth mechanisms such as JWT and OAUTH

Enables use of standard authentication methods and not just one build custom with StreamSets
about 7 hours ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Enable rolling restarts of SDC as a standard pattern.

Currently, there are too many restarts of the SDC and all the SDC's dependent on the change in the deployment need to be restarted. Lets enable the restats to happen in a rolling manner, one SDC at a time. This capability is kind of available in a...
about 7 hours ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted