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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.

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Do not create Exception Set and table if there are 0 rows going to Exception Stage

We are using the Exception Stage in our datastage jobs to capture rejected rows so we don't have bad data going into our data warehouse and to avoid our jobs from failing due to bad data. Using the exception stage instead of using a flat file allo...
almost 6 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 0 Not under consideration

IGC should provide ability to mark standard or custom attribute fields as mandatory before publishing the terms

Audit team identified that few attributes of high importance were left blank. This is possible because IGC currently allows users to publish terms even though standard or custom attributes are left blank.
almost 6 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

IGC New select options for asset lists should be the same as in IGC

When reviewing a list of assets in IGC, you have several options to select assets in the list: All Items, This Page, Page range..., No Items (see screenshot01.png) In IGC New, the only option is to select all the assets in this page (see screensho...
almost 6 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 0 Not under consideration

IGC New list of terms download options should be the same as in IGC

When reviewing a list of terms in IGC, you can choose which terms to download, either all the terms in the list, or only those selected (see screenshot01.png) In IGC New, the only option is to download all the assets in the list (see screenshot02....
almost 6 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

Change communication from DS client to SERVER

See TS002849280. The problem in this case is that encrypted values are sent to the client. Since the client also has the key to decrypt those values, the client basically receives in plaintext the passwords that are set to connect to those datab...
almost 6 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Provide administrative control; for user access to Information Analyzer 'Discover' function

Function accessible via Information Analyzer: Connections> Discover Assets Connections> Browse> Actions> DiscoverCurrently access can only be controlled through IMAM roles. IA ‘Discover Assets’ provides abilities not understood by typi...
almost 6 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 0 Not under consideration

Allow escaping of data class column regex expressions

Current SQL Server environment does not allow multi-byte unicode characters. When IA/IGC data classes are installed out of the box, the multibyte characters in the regex are lost and replaced by question marks. This causes the column analysis to c...
almost 6 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 0 Not under consideration

Support SQL Server with SSL enabled XMeta repository in IS 11.7.1

Support SQL Server with SSL enabled XMeta repository in IS 11.7.1
about 6 years ago in Information Server 0 Planned for future release

RTC 6.0.6 connectivity with Infosphere Information server v 11.7

We want to maintain datastage code in Rational Team Concert by establishing a connection between Information server manager and RTC.
about 6 years ago in Information Server 1 Not under consideration

OVF installation media

Package Information Server installations as OVF files. Our I.T. team wants to deploy future version of DataStage in a VMWare environment. OVF format would facilitate that. Our work around is to perform a standard installation into each virtual mac...
over 6 years ago in Information Server 1 Not under consideration