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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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DataStage S3 connector to have the ability to ingest fixed width files

At present the AWS S3 connector in DataStage is only able to import de-limited files. In order to ingest fixed width files a workaround has to be used to extract the data from S3 and place it on a file system first so that DataStage can import it....
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Planned for future release

Service Package Version Reset and/or Forsibly Deploy

If Symphony shared directory was restored by some reasons (ex. Disaster Recovery, Hardware Renewal, Hardware broken, etc.), RS couldn't deply newer SI package until the version number was incremented to the version number deployed on compute node....
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

[Support Matrix] Matrix - Oracle Standard Edition support for Symphony 6.1.1

We changed the Oracle support policy from v6.1.1 and it make customer hard now.Symphony v6.1.1 support only Oracle Enterprise edition.It is barrier for customer to upgrade Symphony now. Old version Symphony (v6.1.0.1, v5.x) supported Oracle and it...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Default value for DECLARED GLOBAL TEMPORARY Table

Current default for DECLARE GLOBAL TEMPORARY TABLE is ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS. We would like to have the ability to change this via a zparm to ON COMMIT DROP TABLE so that we maximize our thread resuse.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Export function for SPSS CADS job history data on Deployment Manager

Currently SPSS CADS does not provide an export function of job history data. It is possible to do it using Python or SQL for Db2 repository, but it would be far more convinient to do it on Deployment Manager.
almost 5 years ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Not under consideration

Add support for message.channel event for Slack integration

A Slack Integration for Watson Assistant currently responds to "app_mention" and "message.im" Slack events, i.e. when the Watson Assistant -based Slack bot is either messaged directly, or mentioned using @botname in a Slack channel. It does no...
almost 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard filters should work like MS Excel filters

In MS Excel, when you apply a filter on one column, the filter options on other columns are reduced to reflect only the values that exist in this new filtered list. The 8.0.0 iteration of dashboards does not dynamically update the list of workf...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Not under consideration

[CE] Platform Symphony Management GUI - Solaris Sparc - BBK

We use a Symphony Version 5.0 in a pure Solaris 10 Sparc 64 bit Infrastructure including the Platform Management Console GUI. All used servers are based on Solaris Sparc architectureThe Symphony Grid infrastructure is implemented in two regions --...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Export / bulk update from new UI dashboard

This aims to leverage (by combining usage of) the planned features for 8.1: - Bulk update - Export - Dashboard by allowing bulk update and export to be actioned directly from user / system configured lists in their dasboard: Use cases UC1...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Enable all chart formats in Explorer

Currently only column, line and table formats are available in explorer GUI. Please add all formats that are available in fusion charts. Some exmples are : grouped column with multiple series, scrolling, grouped bar with multiple series etc etc.
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration