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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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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Extended Composite Key Support in IKC-RDM

Problem Statement: Currently, IKC-RDM limits the creation of composite keys to a maximum of 6 columns. This restriction can be insufficient for certain reference data sets that require more columns to uniquely identify records. Proposed Solution: ...
16 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Automated Reference Data Synchronization with Datalake HIVE Tables

Problem Statement: Currently, synchronizing Reference Data with Datalake and accessible from Hive Tables is a manual process involving data export from IKC and manual transfer to the Azure cloud platform. This approach is inefficient and error-pro...
16 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Automated Reference Data Synchronization with Azure Databricks Delta Tables

Problem Statement: Currently, synchronizing Reference Data with Azure Databricks Delta Tables is a manual process involving data export from IKC and manual transfer to the Azure cloud platform. This approach is inefficient and error-prone. Propose...
16 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Enhanced Data Export File Format Support for Reference Data

Problem Statement: Currently, Reference data export functionality is limited to CSV format, restricting its versatility and usability for various data destinations. Proposed Solution: Expand Reference data export capabilities to support a wider ra...
16 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Enhanced Data Import File Format Support for Reference Data

Problem Statement: Currently, Reference data import functionality is limited to CSV format, restricting its versatility and usability for various data sources. Proposed Solution: Expand RDM's data import capabilities to support a wider range of co...
16 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Automated RD Type Modification with Data Migration

Problem Statement: Currently, modifying RD Types in IBM-RDMs requires creating new RD Sets and RD Types, which can be inefficient and error-prone. Additionally, handling reference data during RD Type modifications involves manual steps, leading to...
16 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Automated MAPs/SETs Update with Reference Data Handling

Problem Statement: Currently, updating MAPs/SETs in IBM requires a manual process of exporting reference data, updating MAPs/SETs, publishing new MAPs/SETs, and loading data back. This process is time-consuming and error-prone. Proposed Solution: ...
16 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Improvements to the Transformer Component in CP4D:

- The Variable Stages: only one stage is visible at a time, and it is not possible to view the entry fields with its properties.- The output derivation: if the link is long, it is hard to know what fileds are to be derived, and whihc transfromatio...
11 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Request to implement Folders for Jobs, similar to what has been implemented for Assets

While the implementation of the folder structure for many assets has been implemented with 4.8.2, it is missing for jobs. This is particularly important in a large environment with many thousands of jobs running daily. In legacy DataStage 11.7 the...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

PAW - Add freeze panes in views

It would be very useful to have 2 additional properties in the views allowing to set up freeze panes similar to excel. It would thus be possible to set the number of rows and the number of columns to freeze. Example : Number of rows to freeze = 0 ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration