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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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Ability to connect from DSX to HDFS from Biginsights directly using URL hdfs://

Ability to connect to biginsights cluster with spark apis likesc.textFile("hdfs://:8020/tmp/testdata.txt") At moment, Biginsights on cloud doesn't allow remote connection like above from Data science experience.https://datascience.ibm.com/
over 7 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

LSF Session scheduler support on linux-aarch64

We are using LSF 10.1 session scheduler on our linux-x86_64 compute nodes, and wish to also use the session scheduler on our linux-aarch64 nodes, but it seems to not be available yet ? Can we please request the session scheduler is ported to the l...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Develop LUA procedures in...

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

SPSS Connectivity to MS SSAS

We need the ability to analyse data from Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS). No ability to connect to the MS OLEDB data source exists. The particular instance we are interested in connecting to is configured in tabular mode and so uses ...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Tolerance for system clock backward in DPF

The system clock may be changed forward, then be changed back. Some IUD operations fail in a DPF database if the time difference between the forward point and backward point is greater than the value specified by dbm parameter MAX_TIME_DIFF. Hope ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Non Alphanumeric characters in MEMIDENT

As memident holds source system identifiers we have encountered rejections/issues with source systems that utilise special characters in unique identifiers for a record. We would like to enhance out of the box behaviour to support special characters
over 7 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Remove the "SELECT ANY DI...

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

Allow Optim Archive Server to see NAS mounted storage on Windows implementations to put archive files to

Description: When running the Optim Archive Application as a Service and running an archive job on the Server, the tool returns an error that it cannot see the NAS drive destination which the archive job is suppose to write to. When running the ar...
over 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

HA is not supported for the namenode failover using File Connector

Unfortunately, HA is not supported for the namenode failover. This is the limitation of the WebHDFS and the connector does not have a to work around that.
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Require better support of Nested Formula

We are hitting an issue with INDEX function not working in PAw as it does in PAx. This is impacting our report deployment. See attached example Example of formula that fails.=(INDEX($I$7:$T$7,SUMPRODUCT(MAX(($I10:$T10=AC10)*(COLUMN($I10:$T10))))-C...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration