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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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Allow user to specify catalog as the target for automatically discovered data assets

Currently when user checks the option to discover data assets on a connection, the discovered data assets are always added to a (staging) project first, with expectation that the user will then go to the project, and then select the ones he wishes...
almost 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Slowness in Hostfactory return of large number of hosts

Hostfactory is currently stopping hosts one by one due to the egosh logic. This in return slows down the return of the hosts. We need to have a batch close/reclaim egosh command.
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

Support REST as an asset source in WDP Data Catalog

In attempting to build a business metrics and analytics dashboard we are finding many of our data sources can only be accessed through a REST api. Because of this we are unable to use the catalog to manage the sources from within WDP. Adding suppo...
almost 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Change SD behavior after a connection broken with SSM, in order to decide whether or not it is necessary to restart the application

Following multiple network issues in the GRID infrastructure, we observed that the SD decides each time to restart SSM after a broken connection even if there is no problem between the client and SSM: the workload continues to run and no broken co...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Delivered

Execute multi thread TI from Workspace

Would be good to run TI from action buttons in workspace, but also allow for multiple executes of the same TI with different parameters so you can make use of multi threads without having to do any Tm1runTI or other witchery for it to work.
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Kafka connector, enable write message with key value

The kafka connector stage don’t support the key values for message write in kafka.
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

Test and provide documentation to provide support for more recent Parquet file formats.

The current Parquet/Orc file instructions provide support for Parquet 1.9.0, which is now 3.5 years old. We have vendors who want to use Parquet to feed their big data lakes, and we are struggling to support them with this old format, even in an i...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 2 Delivered

Display status of IDAA statistics in List Tasks view

Given the issues we've had with the new IDAA appliance, it would be helpful if we could see the status of IDAA statistics for tables referenced in an active query. See attached for screenshots of Data Studio List Tasks view and statistics icon.
over 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 2 Delivered

Add a function to batch upload attachments - files and associate to objects, such as Test Results

GRC users has to create many test results and attache supporting documents associated to the test results. It would be more efficient if OpenPages provides easy-to-use UI to user for batch creating test result and attaching files.
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Delivered

}Clients Alias visible in set editor

See: PH19245, APAR 145193, Case TS002924326 Working in Planning Analytics for Excel, we need to see the "}TM1_DefaultDisplayValue" alias in the set editor for the clients dimension. This is not currently possible. We often work in the Excel add-in...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered