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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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SSL/TLS connection between metadata repository and service tier.

As per recent case (TS007746794) with IBM, it is confirmed that TLS/SSL connection doesn't support between metadata repository and service tier. Recently our system is migrated to oracle 19c and as per company standard there must not be any non ss...
almost 5 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

remove hardcoding for IAVIEWS, IGVIEWS, CMVIEWS in Information Server 11.5.

Information Server 11.5.1 installs several new hardcoded schema names - IAVIEWS, IGVIEWS, CMVIEWS ,RLVIEWS . Unlike XMETA, DSODB, IAUSER and XMETASR. these new schemas are not user selectable during installation.
over 9 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Request to include certain environment parameters during job submission

Currently, we are unable to submit environment parameters to a MapReduce service in the following manner: // Set TEXTANALYTICS_HOME environment variable on each task's JVM - required by ActionAPI conf.set ("mapreduce.map.env", "TEXTANALYTICS_HOME=...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 5 Not under consideration

Distinguish different products user login in ISaudit_X.log

We user ISauditLog_X.log to track user access to different product in IS suite. However, some products are only shown web console instead of the real product like DQC, admin console and subscription manager. Can we add the differentiation of produ...
almost 10 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Information server integration with LDAP Forgerock OpenDJ

We are using information server Datastage v11.5 and want to use our corporate LDAP Forgerock OpenDJ for authentication but find no documentation on how to configure WAS for use with OpenDJ.
almost 10 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

[Resource Management Policy] Resource plan to allow Time Interval by Day

Resource Plan currently allows Time Interval to be defined. This needs to be extended to allow definition based on day of the week. This will make it possible for Resource plans to be limited to weekdays or weekends depending on usage patterns.
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Not under consideration

help icon

11.7 of Classic IGC uses icon of "?" whereas 11.7 New IGC uses "i" I feel "i" is less confusing and an improvement over "?". Please change classic catalog to use "i". There are multiple reasons we can't move our users to the New IGC Catalog (lack ...
almost 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

IGC feedback subject and email content is able to be customized.

IBM CASE: TS006925821 Hi Team, Our business client raised one request to change the feedback email's body. Is that possible? Could you please provide the guidance? The feedback email function is shown while you go with the following steps:1. login...
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

Missing parameters for job starts via the Operations Console

Job starts via the Operations Console behave differently than via the DataStage Director Client. While all parameters for a parameter set are displayed and can be changed in the Director, this is unfortunately not the case in the Operations Consol...
about 5 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

PMC Very Slow to Load User Information From LDAP

When using the PMC, loading the user information takes a very long time. We have over 25,000 users in LDAP. When using the PMC to create a new user it takes a very long time to load the user list. When adding or changing Roles for a user, it takes...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration