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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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Technical Specialist- Information Server

With the Amazon S3 stage, our client would like to include the date_created field for a list of files in Amazon S3. Currently this is missing. I would like to read the create date for a file using the DataStage S3 connector, but I do not see that ...
almost 8 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Spaces in Column Name - unstructured stage or any Stage

Our team uses dataStage unstructured Stage for our integration nd ETL. However, we have Column names that have spaces, and unstructured Stage currently has limit on Column names not to have spaces. This limit should be extended and spaces should b...
almost 8 years ago in Connectivity 0 Functionality already exists

Vertical bar to indicate milestones on Gant Charts

The Gant chart visualization could be enhanced to include the option to mark key milestones as vertical bars on the chart.
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Not under consideration

IBM.ENtityFramework.Core To Scaffold Indexes Properly

We used latest released IBM EF Core nuget packages to add DB2 Support to our application with existing DB2 database. Scaffolding the DB out to Models and usable DBContext time and again. We realized on comparing DB2 server that 90% of the indexes ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

read only root file system

Follow security best practice (CIS) and mount images as read-only (a read only root file system via readOnlyRootFilesystem: true). Then mounted volumes from outside the container could be used for any data that needs to be persistent.
almost 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

All pods from helm test should end in a "Completed" state and not an "Error" state.

As the installer of Watson Assistant on Cloud Pak for Data, seeing anything that says "Error" is concerning and encourages me to open up a support case with IBM. A pod ending up in an "Error" status suggests that something has gone wrong in the te...
almost 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

business term extraction for a FIPS enabled system

Even after the upgrade to 3.0.1/1.0.7.1, we are still not able to use the business term extraction tool. Just downloading/uploading the sample pdf provided on the UI gives us "Error Uploading File. Click here to try again." message.
almost 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Is a defect

version for chrome OS

version for chrome OS
almost 4 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Allow COPY with Templates to pick TAPE or DASD based on RTS

We are creating intraday Image Copy jobs that may contain a mix of small and large tables. We use Templates and Include/Exclude to determine which objects should go to TAPE and which should go to DASD. The threshold for what determines large or sm...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Alternate Job Collection parameters needed in mobile App.

In the current version of mobile app, all jobs are collected by job groups. Searching by job group or by the already existing search of jobID is unrealistic when you are dealing with jobs in the millions. Xilinx would like to see the addition of m...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration