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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.

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Removing defunct Delta Backup images after automatic database backup image removal

We have automated backup options enabled (num_db_backups and rec_his_retentn both set). Our backup schedule takes a full backup on Sunday and a Delta every other day of the week. When a full backup image qualifies for removal, with reference to th...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Add Sort Option to Map visualization

We want to visualize monitoring alert data on a geo map. Every alert has a severity value and a related color (red=critical, ...). Currently there is no sort option availailable for e.g. the map point color data item. As a sort option is also avai...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Document about the each pods for services.

Many pods will run in CPD nodes after installing several services. Documents about the pods detail will be helpful.
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Not under consideration

Data masking for ingested WDS documents

We have a client request to provide capability to mask sensitive data from ingested documents. This is to serve 2 purposes; i) general company wide data privacy requirements, ii) masking sensitive data from developers If a function was available t...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

When a DataStage job creates a dataset with a parameterized name, the dataset does not utilize the parameter value at runtime for naming.

When a dataset is created by a DataStage job, and the dataset's name is composed of a parameter, the dataset does not use the parameter's value at runtime to name it.
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Adding new retry mechanism for terminateinstances and other calls to AWS

Adding new retry mechanism for terminateinstances and other calls to AWS similar. Currently HF only has retry mechanism for "requestSpotFleet" and "describeSpotFleet"
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Setting CNDS to work in AWS Cloud based RDS

Our CADS 8.3 system has been installed in AWS Cloud. It has worked well for a couple of years. Recently the RDS instance that contains the CADS repository was set to enable SSL and CADS stopped working. IBM support Ticket TS014997706 was establish...
6 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Future consideration

Need CI/CD and Version Control Tool (Git) Integration (MettleCI) option in CP4D.

We have been demonstrted Mettle CI solution for integration with GIT/Automatic testing/CI/CD for Datastage 11.7 and said it would be available for IBM Cloud pak Data as well in future releases of CP4D : We have below questions on this topic 1)when...
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Custom Nodes with native Python (not PySpark)

In Modeler 18.5, there are Extension nodes which run native Python scripting (Pandas-based), but not Custom Nodes. In previous versions, the Extension nodes allows PySpark scripting AND Custom Nodes with PySpark. It would be nice to have the abili...
6 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Have the Governance Artifacts editor pages (Terms/Categories) be customizable (delete/hide fields not filled/needed)

Although the Glossary and Category pages serve many purposes for the customers governance endevour oftentimes there is "too much". Many fields will never get touched/used by a customer and it would be nice if one could "get rid" of them (hidding? ...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Future consideration