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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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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

Request the ability to install Analytic Server 3.01/3.1 with Ambari as a non root user.

As documented in our Analytic Server 3.0.1 Installation guide: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSWLVY_3.0.1/analytic_server_install_ddita/analytic_server/installation/install_installer_offline.html "BigInsights and HDP instructions - 3...
about 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Analytics Server 0 Not under consideration

Request for SPSS Modeler to support the Google DistanceI's

We are trying to call Google Maps Distance Matrix API into the SPSS Modeler professional. We have opened a PMR but IBM confirmed that we do not currently have a way to call Google API. We are submitting this enhancement request to include this fea...
about 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Request to restart Python Child Process when task done

Currently, with Python drop 2, on the service side, each service wrapper process will spawn a new child process, which is responsible for the actual task function execution, when the wrapper process starts for a new session and will kill the child...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 2 Not under consideration

No Expression Procession for CAST_TO_VARCHAR2

z/OS has 65536 code page for Chinese character. CAST_TO_VARCHAR2 does not make any change in character. But the expression with Chinese character causes performance problem. For character in RAW to VARCHAR2, Qrep should ignore the expression CAST_...
about 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 2 Not under consideration

QRep Automatic Refresh with ICU Decoding

ICBC load existing data from z/OS db2 to Oracle: z/OS exported file -> UDS (ICBC application) decoding -> SQL Loader import to Oracle DB. For QREP automatic Refresh, decoding with customized decoding rule is required. It should be:z/OS expor...
about 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Planned for future release

Allow for installation and run when ambari-server is running under non-root

The IBM SPSS Analytic Server Installation on Ambari documentation carries this big warning: "Analytic Server does not support installation in an environment where the Ambari-Server is running as a non-root user." (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowl...
about 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Analytics Server 0 Not under consideration

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

Automate migration of DataStage job with Enterprise Data Warehouse as the target to Hadoop

Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) optimization has been observed as the most common use case for data lake initiatives. Off loading EDW data into Hadoop provides a highly cost-efficient environment with optimal performance, scalability and flexibili...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Remove Struts 1 from Platform Symphony

Our team uses Platform Symphony as a work load manager for IBM BigInsights. The product contains both version 1 and 2 of struts. While working to patch a security Vulnerability in the struts 2 jars we were told by our security team that struts 1 i...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 1 Not under consideration