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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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Spark Count Slow Read

Please develop an update to allow Spectrum to read data schema information with multiple executors. Seems to only use 1 or 2 and takes a very long time compared to other YARN based environments that use multiple executors to read the data files fo...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.3 0 Future consideration

SQL Engine enhancement to support "Db2 mode" SQL syntax rules

(This IDEA item was written based on my own experience in DVM POC test at customer site.) In DVM, SQL syntax rules are based on ANSI-92 standard, not on Db2 for z/OS rules, even in the case where DVM virtual table is defined on Db2 for z/OS table....
over 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Dashboard

Dear Team, It would be good idea if we have dash board which can help us to understood which sig is down, how many slots are free, resources, failed jobs , logs etc in a single glance in Spectrum conductor. this visualization will help managers to...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.3 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Conductor 2.3 Notebook single sign-on support

Support Single Sign on to Jupyter notebooks, from desktop browsers, and convey credentials to ALL connectors for security entitlement tracing. Likely this requires: a) removal of Python tornado, b) connection with SPNEGO technology and c) CHMOD/CH...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.3 0 Future consideration

Online remove member

Request to support online member removal from pureScale
over 9 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Future consideration

DB2 12 Support for SPSS 18.5

My client, diamond account in Turkiye and one of the greatest banks, is using DB2 12 which has EOS date at the end of 2025. However, they are unable to use it with SPSS 18.5 as DB2 12 is not supported. They are unable to create critical reports us...
4 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

enable to fabricate data for tables with circular dependency.

Currently IBM Optim TDF tool doesn't support tables with circular dependency. it doesn't even accept the tables with circular dependency to add into TDF project. We would like IBM to enable TDF to generate data for tables with circular dependency.
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Fabrication 1 Future consideration

Double " delimiter issue with HPU

When unloading from an Imagecopy using HPU, data gets unloaded like this : " 12345"~"SMA "O" DRAIN TILE CO. LTD. 05 while with DSNUTILB, it gets unloaded like this: " 12345"~"SMA ""O"" DRAIN TILE CO. LTD. 05. If you look at 'O' in the company name...
over 1 year ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 1 Future consideration

[Copy] Actifio (VDP) AGM Manager UI does not display appropriate message when Snapshot pool is full

During the Backup restore process, when allocated Snapshot pool is full and an internal error gets generated, UI is not getting this message propagated to the user who is executing the restore task. User is expecting proper logging message or a UI...
about 2 years ago in Optim 0 Future consideration

Find special characters in WKC Catalog search

It has been found that the WKC Catalog search does not properly handle special characters (underscore specifically). The response to the IBM Support Case is that this is a limitation of the "light weight" search feature used, based on Lucene and i...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration