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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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Expose key capabilities via API to enable embedding in external product UI

The Watson data platform needs to expose all capabilities required to define a connection between a data source and Discovery, select the desired data elements to extract, transform the data, send to Discovery for ingestion, and maintain ongoing d...
about 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Support leading unstructured data sources across a variety of market segments

Watson Discovery is highly oriented to search and text analytics use cases which revolve heavily around unstructured data sources. Currently the Watson Discovery service lacks out of the box connectivity to a large number of key data sources inclu...
about 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Functionality already exists

Salesforce Connector - Datastage V11.5 - API 40

We are implementing SalesForce and we need to connect to API 40. The actual connector don't connect a we recieved the Invalid Login error message.
about 7 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

Get and read file from http(s) server from datastage

We have stage to retrieve and read file from ftp servers, so we should have the same functionality from http(s) servers.
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Support for a Teradata connector

We need to provide a connector for Teradata to allow these sources to be connected to and cataloged. This has come in from 2 clients, a healthcare provide in Egypt and a telecoms provider in the UK. This is a big cap in our connectors from what I ...
about 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Business Glossary needs to cull unusable formerly "technical terms values" from "actionable business term" drop down

Drop down contains business terms that aren't actionable since they are not allowed when building rules.
about 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

AIX 7.2 Support for DataStage, InfoSphere Information Server

Support for AIX version 7.2 is needed for DataStage. Currently only the older AIX v7.1 is supported.Due to security guidelines and official regulations, the operating system needs to be updated to the current level. Support for all currently used ...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

HA is not supported for the namenode failover using File Connector

Unfortunately, HA is not supported for the namenode failover. This is the limitation of the WebHDFS and the connector does not have a to work around that.
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Transposing color background black and letters white in DS designer.

There is no built-in feature to allow for transposed colors (white letters on a background) in any of the thick clients.This not considered a defect, and there is no patch for this.Allowing custom color support would be considered a new feature.
over 7 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Purge Functionality in Salesforce Connector to avoid records hitting recyclebin

Dear Team, I would like to get the following functionalities in Salesforce Connector 1. Capability to retrieve object structure from Salesforce connector2. Capability to call a purge API to hard delete the records from the object to avoid recycle ...
over 7 years ago in Connectivity 0 Functionality already exists