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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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Store PARM details when processing JCL

We are trying to identify when certain REXX scripts get called and this is stored as the PARM in the JCL. With the example below, I can see details for the inputs and outputs, but can't find 'OS#QTIM1' stored anywhere: //STEP020 EXEC PGM=IRXJCL,PA...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Allow autoscaling on memory as well as cpu utilisation.

Horizontal Pod Autoscaling configurations for Cognos on CP4D include CPU utilisation only. Clients with large queries can exhaust memory allocation before CPU. Our client would like to be able to scale on memory or a combination of memory and CPU.
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted

Custom Properties API

Currently, the API used to grab custom properties, GET /v2/asset_types, is not sufficient. If you pass parameter custom_attributes=true and permits_decorators= false, then it will retrieve all custom properties, but we cannot filter by those which...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson API Toolkit 0 Under review

Support for associating files and data sets for COBOL programs that do not have file definitions

In COBOL programs (*1) that realizes file access by calling the subroutines responsible for the access method, there is a restriction that the file name to be accessed cannot be associated with the data set name. It is possible to define the assoc...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Apache Cassandra for Datastage Stage does not have option to execute SQL statement

Current Apache Cassandra for Datastage stage has options to define columns, pass the schema and table name, if we need to filter out data or run a custom SQL statement it does not provide any option. It would be necessary for developers to have an...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Support settings for DEX oidc upstream connector in dashboard

Setting up ADDI/DEX with oidc as upstream connector instead of ldap to support smartcard logon thru external provider is working as excpected. But configuration needs to be done directly in the dex.conf file instead of the dashboard. This means th...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Shutdown gracefully of IKC

Background: - Customer needs to restart the CP4D cluster to do maintenance operations as explained in : https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/CPDIDEAS-I-2164 - The only service left with the "shutdown" feature for my customer is IKC. - Also, it will help us...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Folder in watson studio for DataStage files

For InfoSphere DataStage user who transition to NextGen DataStage, they find it very messy if they cannot organize DataStage related files in folder.
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

When deleting an external connection to an NFS share, the pvc is not deleted in OpenShift

In cloud pak for data 4.8 a customer can create an external connection to an nfs share. When this connection is created a pvc is created. When this connection is deleted, the connection is deleted from CP4D, but not deleted in openShift. It is exp...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Future consideration

Must have Data Service available on DataStage Anywhere

Ford has running DataStage NextGen on GCP (OpenShift), wants to move to DataStage Anywhere but didn't see Data Service as part of DS Anywhere and wanted to have it before moving to Anywhere Platform ASAP
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted