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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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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.

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Row limit reached "Warning" vs. "Error"

We believe its useful to show a warning notice instead of showing this as an error because basically its based on a setting that the user is specifying in the job configs prior to running the job. Its also helpful when a user might forget to remov...
over 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Under review

Be able to send stdout/stderr to both file and email

See ticket TS015786331; currently cannot have stderr & stdout go to both a file and email. We would like the option to do both.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Functionality already exists

Improve Cognos Analytics integration with Salesforce

Current state IBM Cognos Analytics ability to integrate with / pull metadata from Salesforce is extremely limited. Unable to select tables/schemas using new "Manage" administration functionality or create data modules using Salesforce data. Legacy...
over 3 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Future consideration

Include notifications for recent changes (API Connect v10)

This is for API-Connect v10 (OVA install). In v5, there was a feature where one could view a notification bell in the top right corner when logging into the cloud manager or api manager that would show recent changes (Ex: xyz api was published, et...
over 3 years ago in Analytics Engine 1 Future consideration

Expand energy stats to cover non-exclusive jobs

As part of working towards our net zero we would like to request more general energy measurement for non-exclusive jobs. We believe this would benefit all LSF users, particularly those working in the UK research environment where there is an incre...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Future consideration

64-bit support on Linux

Please enable 64-bit processing for Optim on Linux. Our consumers are forced to use Windows servers because of the 32-bit restriction on Linux.
over 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Distributing  various files like spark events, spark job logs,  across pvcs.

Customer is expecting a performance bottle neck if we don't distribute the files that are going into file-api-pv. For example when we look at a spark executor yaml, we see atleast 5 or more mount paths to file-api-pv. Customer some times is runnin...
almost 2 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

Extend Role-based access control to data columns

We are facing the need to limit access to certain data columns/fields in LSF Explorer for certain roles. In our environment a few different teams will make use of the reporting capabilities of LSF Explorer in different scopes. Nevertheless, LSF Ex...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Color-coding report tabs

Report pages can be rendered as tabs in Reporting. However, it is not easy to differentiate one page from another. It would be easier if the tabs could be formatted with different colors
almost 6 years ago in Analytics Engine 1 Not under consideration

Infosphere Optim TDM - Function CONVERSION_ERROR_RC4 missing for LUW

Short problem description: "CONVERSION_ERROR_RC4". There is a option in Optim for z/OS reguarding conversion error. From the manual. CONVERSION_ERROR_RC4 Option to enforce how the return code is set when conversion errors are detected or rows are ...
almost 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Not under consideration