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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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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SAP ECC Bridge in IMAM

SAP ECC Bridge that ships with Information Server. We have enabled it so that we can pull this information from our SAP environment into the repository but the documentation in IMAMsays the following: This bridge imports SAP ECC metadata from file...
about 10 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Compression for Balance Optimization

Job does not fully optimize due to use of User-defined Select statement with multi-select columns. Job cannot be fully optimized since this is only doable with using Netezza target connector.
about 10 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

11.5 version deprecated LogManagement folder in Webconsole

IBM took away the “Log Management” from the Webconsole in 11.5 version. When our istool deployments fail, this is place we look at errors today.Infact even in version 11.5 error message still say it:““Unexpected error importing design. See...
over 10 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

IMAM improvements IS v11.5

The way that the tool handles some technologies, ie Informix, SQLServer, etc. by doing imports at the database rather than the server level we are going to be exploding our number of Import areas and database connections to a point where the tool ...
over 10 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

IMAM IS v11.5 enable to import multiple db's

IMAM Importing for Informix, SQLServer, and other databases that currently import 1 database at a time. Before we had asked that in the case of Informix we use the SysMaster DB which contains the metadata for all DBs on the box as opposed to hitti...
over 10 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Users to provision their Data

Data Click is part of Information Server Metadata server . Which allows users to provision their data . So far this product support few databases . Request is to support below databases Teradata to HadoopTeradata to green plumFile to whateverWhate...
over 10 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Endpoint to access IGC Queries in IGC Rest API

A few of our customers are making improvements using domains in OpenIGC. They can perform basic functions with existing endpoints. However, there is no endpoint related to Query. Our customers perform quality analysis periodically and take action ...
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

Change IGC UI font to display well in Unicode language

IGC UI by design uses "HelvRegularIBM" (Helvetica Neue Light for IBM). This font do not support characters like ậ ữ ế (specific in Vietnamese). So these characters look smaller/different. Please add functionality to change IGC UI font to display w...
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

istool export option to rename job

System: DataStageActor: User needing new feature IBM InfoSphere DataStage is an ETL tool and part of the IBM Information Platforms Solutions suite and IBM InfoSphere. Description: Our team uses istool for export/import job in command line. An expo...
over 10 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Add Blueprint Director back to IS suite

In Information Server 11.5 it is explicitly mentioned that Blueprint Director has been deprecated. No more integration with asset types in catalog and no more diagramming tool available as part of the suite license. In my opinion, the tool really ...
over 10 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration