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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.

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Add import synonyms capability for Netezza connector in Infosphere Metadata Asset Manager

We cannot import synonyms in IMAM for Netezza connector where as synonyms can be imported for Oracle connector. We have raised a PMR for the issue(TS001641021 - Synonyms import issue in IMAM for Netezza database). Engineering team confirmed that t...
almost 6 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

Please provide -authfile option for installing an Information Infosphere Server update package with encrypted password

Currently installUpdates requires wasadmin/isadmin password to be entered for installing an Information Infosphere Server update package (fix pack, patch, or update). Please provide authfile option with installUpdates so that wasadmin/isadmin encr...
almost 6 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

Usage Information Section is missing for asset XML Schema Definitions from assets dossier view in IGC

Hi, There is request from business to create the associations for assets under ‘XML Schema Definition' Hierarchy in IGC but looks like IGC is not supporting any association for this asset type.Problem Statement: Usage Information Section is missin...
almost 6 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

Support PostgreSQL for PERF Database

Need this in Symphony 7.3.1 Currently Symphony PERF DB can be configured to use MS SQL Server, Oracle and DB2. PostgreSQL is a powerful open source object-relational database that uses and extends SQL combined with many features that safely store ...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

[RFE][CommerzBank] - EGO API for User Management - REST API for User Add/Remove/Modify as the solution

Java API from 5.1 (UserAdmin) has been depreciated and there is no replacement EGO API in Symphony 6.1.1 which can manage user add/remove.
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 5 Not under consideration

We need "Started(Service)", "Ended(Service)", "Task received by client" and "SIM PID" info in task_attributes table

I compare the difference between task.soamdb file and task_attributes table. I do notice when I do "soamview task" command, it will retrieve data from task.soamdb file. However, our users want to know "Started(Service)", "Ended(Service)", "Task re...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 4 Needs more information

Support Oracle Single Schema for multiple clusters data

In this link https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.2?topic=database-setting-up-external-productionYou have this precondition in the 'Before you begin' section: "For data security, each cluster should have a different database schema to...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Certify for Citi - Symphony cluster configuration verification tools/features

Symphony configuration files to be audited and verified: We have a question from auditing about Symphony cluster configuration verification. The auditing is looking for any features/tools from Symphony that periodically check/verify Symphony clust...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 2 Planned for future release

Self-signed certificate or no certificate for compute nodes

This is for Sym 7.3.1 or later versions. We need to have TLS enabled for all the communications in order to run Symphony in AWS securely. All the management nodes and masters will have a proper signed certificate. Communications to mgmt nodes and ...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Functionality already exists

Azure Authentication for IIS DataStage Trust Association Interceptor

Information Security directive within UPS to Azure Authentication to ensure valid users. UPS has been using EAM which is no longer supported and UPS is moving to Azure. Currently users are required to sign on to a DataStage environment and provide...
about 6 years ago in Information Server 0 Planned for future release