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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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.

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



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Kafka Connector - Avro Schema name configuration

The current Kafka Connector (11.7.1.3 SP1) does not allow us to configure Avro Schema name used for either serialization or deserialization. In all cases, it is currently fixed to "KafkaConnectorSchema" which does not comply with our current schem...
over 4 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow Bufferpool Min_lru_dirty and Max_lru_dirty Threshold values to be altered dynamically

onparams -b can be used to add a new bufferpool and AUTO_LRU_TUNING are available on informix server but first only adds a bufferpool of a new page size and the latter only kicks in if some foreground writes occur on a server which ideally is neve...
over 4 years ago in Information Server 2 Not under consideration

Increase Hierarchy view List length

We have more then 100 (the current view limit) asset in several of our assets types. When we try to use the Hierarchy View, the lists cut off and the assets below the cut off are not able to be expanded or viewed in their hierarchy format, which i...
over 4 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

Built-in functionality to create process dump

Sometime IBM support need dumps from Symphony processes for troubleshot. It could be usefull to have CLI, API and WEBGUI access to trigger a process dump. Command line example egosh createDump SD /tmp (which should create a dump of SD process and ...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 1 Not under consideration

Unblock a list of compute for all applications

Have the possibility to unblock a list of compute nodes for all applications (usefull when compute nodes have encounter an issue, resolved, that impacted a set or all applications of the grid)
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration

Windows 2016 docker container support

Support Windows server 2016 containers (it is the Socgen target) for Symphony workloads.
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 1 Not under consideration

Date Format for Avro and Parquet

Our users would like do use date formats with Avro and Parquet.
over 9 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

[RFE][PIMCO] - Host Factory - Private Cloud Burst - Cisco Unified Computing System

We would request private cloud burst, Cisco UCS running on VMware. is supported in Symphony 7.2
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 7 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

InformationServer Clients ISTOOL "site awareness"

The ISTOOL is not Active Directory site aware. As a result, the authentication of the multiple ISTOOL commands within the batch job loading metadata into IGC goes across our world-wide cluster of AD servers (including Singapore and London, England...
over 9 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration