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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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ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Ability to schedule job running at higher granularity than a day

As a Job administrator, I would like to schedule jobs running more frequently within a day, maybe running every hour.Currently, Director allows a job to be scheduled to run twice a day. To allow the jobs to run every hour, we have to create 12 sch...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

enable LSB_DISABLE_RERUN_POST_EXEC in job level

LSB_DISABLE_RERUN_POST_EXEC which can be used to not to run "post_exec" for rerun jobs can be set only cluster level in lsf.conf . Require a similar config parameter to enable this in jobs level so that it can be applied to specific jobs .
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Implementing Kerberos in ...

No description provided
about 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Support a unique identifier concept in data sources

A developer or admin working with the Watson Discovery service is going to want to keep it as closely in sync with the content in all of the data sources they are working with. As content changes in the data sources, developers need to have an eas...
about 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

CECBTCCP should allow relative timestamps

CECBTCCP should allow relative times.
about 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

store/show User ID via CECBTCCP

the QUERY command for PGM=CECBTCCP should also show the user ID.
about 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

Statistics supporting the ODS format

read an dataset in ODS-format (OpenOffice spreadsheet)
about 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Oracle ANYDATA Support

No description provided
about 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Not under consideration

Provide a less database centric view of data sources

The data platform needs to provide a less Database centric view of each supported data source. Currently any user wanting to move data from a source such as Salesforce is required to have a deep understanding of the database structure and associat...
about 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Expose key capabilities via API to enable embedding in external product UI

The Watson data platform needs to expose all capabilities required to define a connection between a data source and Discovery, select the desired data elements to extract, transform the data, send to Discovery for ingestion, and maintain ongoing d...
about 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists