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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.

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Information Analyzer Virtual table data security

We have observed VT data security issues in Information Analyzer. IA is allowing users to view and create virtual table on all data sources which are not added in current project. For example, we have two projects "USDO" and "SDMO_AML". My user id...
over 4 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 0 Not under consideration

Dynamically add applications to symrest.json of service SYMREST by Consumer or Cluster Admins

CBB cluster users want manage workflow via EGO service SYMREST, however cluster admin has to manually add the application into the SYMREST config file symrest.json and bounce the service. This increases a lot of cluster admin support work. If the ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Symphony support gcc 11.2 on Red Hat 7

We are upgrading python wrapper application to 3.9 with gcc11.2 on Redhat 7, and C++ app with gcc11.2 as well. We are expecting IBM can provide the compatible so file as soon as possible
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3 Not under consideration

Incorporate patch RFE SPCS-I-999 Fix ID: sym-7.3.2.2-build602311 to Symphony Fix Pack 1

The docker controller patch for supporting API versions 1.24 - 1.44 was delivered for Symphony Fix Pack 2 (Fix ID: sym-7.3.2.2-build602311). Can you please add the same patch to Symphony Fix Pack 1? Thank you Elsa
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 4 Not under consideration

Enable setting defaults to the Operations Console

The default view on the Operations Console is set to 3 days. Enabling the abilty to set the default to a user defined value would be ideal. In a citrix environment the web browser cookies are always refreshed between sessions, so the user preferen...
over 1 year ago in Information Server 0 Submitted

Validate client on containers

As discused on case TS018079953, the clients are not validated to run in containers, which is a functionality we are aldready using in our clusters. It will be needed to support this functionality in order to have support for the problems we are f...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Needs more information

Hostfactory round up the number of on-demand slots to 1 when it falls between 0 and 1

When choosing percentOnDemand=10%, quite often we get 0 slot calculated on the ondemand server therefore there is no slot on the server and leave the task pending forever. We'd like to suggest that hostfactory round up the number of on-demand slot...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 4

Certify IIS 11.5 with WinServer 2016

Micorsoft Windows Server 2016 is only supported/certified with the 11.7 version.As of now, there is no support for the version 11.5. Would you, please, certify IIS 11.5 with Microsoft Windows Server 2016! Corresponding Salesforce Case: TS001523521
almost 8 years ago in Information Server 3 Not under consideration

TLS/SSL connection between metadata repository and service tier

As per recent communication with IBM via case TS007746794, TLS/SSL connection not possible between metadata repository and service tier. Hence we would like to know when this feature will come into picture. We need this to be available as early as...
almost 5 years ago in Information Server 3 Not under consideration

Allow InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog to Connect to Cognos Analytics (CA11.x.x & above)

Currently we don't have an 'out-of-the' box solution to read Metadata information of our BI Models & Reports from our Cognos Analytics (CA 11.1.1) from IGC (we are on version 11.7.0.2). As per IBM support, only version up to Cognos 10.2.2 vers...
over 6 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 2 Not under consideration