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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.

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IGC Standardize presentation of asset context and use of asset type icons

Asset icons are not displayed with the context string in 'contained assets' list. See attached. Database Table details: ORGANIZATION, shows Database Column, ADDRESS, with full context but does not include icons as seen in context string everywhere...
over 6 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 0 Not under consideration

passwd revealed during install, patching

When ever we do new install, in-place upgrade or patching activities of IS v11.7x we observe that process running behind the seen showing passwd in plain text format.. I have seen it for wasadmin but unsure of isadmin or dsadmin. Its very much ann...
over 4 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Add Tririga Connector to be able to connect to Tririga databases from CP4D

Add Tririga Connector to be able to connect to Tririga databases from CP4D.
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

Redshift Connector for Information Server

We would like a Redshift Connector to be certified for IA Column Analysis and Rule execution. Redshift has become very popular, and so many users would benefit from the connector availability.
over 4 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 0 Not under consideration

Encrypt password for scripts configured for TLS

I have configured my IIS 11.7.0.2 to use TLS from the following links https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/instructions-enabling-tls-communications-db2-databases-information-server-ibm-information-server-v11x https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/u...
almost 7 years ago in Information Server 1 Not under consideration

Upgrade Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) from 128-bit encryption to 256-bit as the default on IBM Information Server

Upgrade Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) from 128-bit encryption to 256-bit as the default on IBM Information Server
over 4 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Information Server 11.7.1 - XMETA support on SQL Server 2017

In IIS 11.7.1 we have XMETA supported on SQL Server 2016, but customers already moved to 2017. We need to stay current with IIS in terms of XMETA repository support and install IIS 11.7.1 on SQL Server 2017.
about 7 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Big Query connector uses legacy API by default which is adding 90 minutes of wait time for the streaming buffer to be flushed for DML operations to be performed. We need functionality in BQ connector to be able to use Storage write API to avoid this wait time

If a BQ job abends for some reason due to connectivity issue etc, the application team has to wait for 90 min to restart the job 2nd time. if this issue occurs in critical flow, it is causing SLA miss which is causing business impact
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 1 Under review

Challenges Integrating IdG Platform with InfoSphere: Metadata Structure Hurdles information server v11.7

The dependency that administration tasks have on the users dsadm, isadmin, and wasadmin. It has not been possible to fully segregate them from our everyday administration users, and this dependency has led us to fail to meet information security s...
over 2 years ago in Information Server 0 Submitted

Adding the microservices tier to an existing IIS 11.7.1 installation

Add the option to install the microservices tier (a.k.a. Unified Governance stack) after the installation of IIS 11.7.1 is already finished. This is not currently possible as documented in https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSZJPZ_11.7...
about 7 years ago in Information Server 1 Functionality already exists