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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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Allow service accounts to be longer than 8 characters

Our corporate service account naming standards across multiple platforms assumes that all operating systems support up to 20 characters. All of the OSes we use, do support longer names. We have had to make exceptions for service accounts that will...
over 4 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Certify Information Analyser to profile Parquet files in an AWS S3 bucket

In order to provide effective Data Governance, we need the ability to run Column Analysis, Data Quality Analysis, and run Data Rules against Parquet files stored in Amazon S3 Buckets. These files form a significant portion of our data estate, and ...
almost 5 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 0 Not under consideration

Skip relationship with Esperanto terms

When using the "istool" command for glossary import, if in the .xml file that is imported there are relationships (Synonyms, Has A, Is A etc) between terms also present in the xml file and other terms that are not in the xml file nor on the target...
almost 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 6 Is a defect

Encryption for DataStage repository

Our Secuity department mandate us to encrypt all databases including the DataStage XMETA repository. When we do encrypt the DB2 database XMETA with the "DATA_ENCRYPT" option on the DB2 configuration, the WebSphere is not able to connect and I am n...
over 7 years ago in Information Server 1 Not under consideration

sequence Contains Assets on Open IGC Data Integration 1.0

automatically for the order according to what I gave in the attachment based on Contains_Assets.jpg vs Contain_Assets_ETL.jpg is different
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

Suppress the "Operation category READ is not supported in state standby" warning message

Warning messages are appearing in all jobs and commands that use DataStage datasets after the Hadoop primary namenode server (xhadnamem1p) fails over to the secondary node (xhadnamem2p). In some cases the warnings are causing aborts due to the num...
over 7 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Please consider to add functionality on “istool” command line for packaging management for IIS 11.3 version.

Currently, only it exists possibility to create, build and send Datastage packages (.pkg format), using the command line command “istool” The requirement is to have possibility to delete and update existing packages on the command line, using ...
over 7 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

XML import via CSV connector

XML support via CVS connector
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

Add import synonyms capability for Netezza connector in Infosphere Metadata Asset Manager

We cannot import synonyms in IMAM for Netezza connector where as synonyms can be imported for Oracle connector. We have raised a PMR for the issue(TS001641021 - Synonyms import issue in IMAM for Netezza database). Engineering team confirmed that t...
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

Please provide -authfile option for installing an Information Infosphere Server update package with encrypted password

Currently installUpdates requires wasadmin/isadmin password to be entered for installing an Information Infosphere Server update package (fix pack, patch, or update). Please provide authfile option with installUpdates so that wasadmin/isadmin encr...
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration