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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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Runtime resource files - support for encryption and decryption at runtime within the pipeline using keys from azure key vault

Humana is successful with using exec function in credential store by fetching encryption keys from Azure key vault. They are looking for similar feature/implementation for resource files, specifically encrypting resource files and decrypting them ...
1 day ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Don't deleted RD Related Values before a new import

When importing related values in a reference dataset in CP4D the previous related values are removed first before importing the new RVs. For crosswalks, this has a significant impact. To illustrate we have the following tables: -ISO Alpha2 Country...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

PAfE installation guide on Azure Virtual Desktop

It is a very common practice for organization to deploy application via VDI approach such as AVD (Azure Virtual Desktop). This is a very common practice and currently my organization is informed by IBM Support that this has not been officially sup...
1 day ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Need to revisit timestemp for incremental backup

our database backup size approaches 17 TB on a very busy system. When we attempt to take a Level 1 backup with ontape, the database engine throws an exception indicating that the backup is too old. As a result, we are forced to take a Level 0 back...
2 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Integrate with Hashicorp External Vault with alternate method (not token based) such as VaultStaticSecret

We have been able to successfully configure Cloud Pak for Data to integrate with HashiCorp External Vault to retrieve content of secrets. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/5.0.x?topic=vaults-connecting-external#taskadd-vaults__steps__...
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Bedrock 0 Submitted

Please increase size of LAST_FAILURE_REASON column in Task Attributes table.

The SSM and SIM error log is saved in LAST_FAILURE_REASON column of Task Attributes table. It is set to 2048 chars currently. However, the error message is much longer than 2048 chars. So we can't see the whole error message in Task Attributes tab...
2 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Switch CAE Server in Sysplex from Hot Stand By to Active while running

Hello IBM, we have the Db2 Query monitor in an active passive configuration in a Syplex. During Maintenance we begin the with the secondary side of the plex were the hot stand by instance of the Query Monitor is running. After the maintenance we w...
2 days ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Monitoring Data for Online Models - CP4D

Hello, we are requesting for info on online deployments. At the moment, we are able to get logs via nginx pods of the requests that come through a model, but more info would make a difference for customers. For example there could be a monitoring ...
2 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Show DSNT709I also in Joblog of MSTR

If there are several instances of RLF tables, and someone activates a specific instance using the DSN command with the command -START RLIMIT ID=nn, this is currently impossible to trace, or at least very difficult to trace. The START command is on...
5 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Alter QSUB add *EXPRESSION* without DROP/RECREATE

As we know, user can alter QSUB and add current_timestamp / timestamp column without drop/recreate QSUB. But it is NOT possible to add an *EXPRESSION* without drop/recreate QSUB. With this feature, it's much more convenient without annoy drop/recr...