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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.

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.

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IMAM IS v11.5 enable to import multiple db's

IMAM Importing for Informix, SQLServer, and other databases that currently import 1 database at a time. Before we had asked that in the case of Informix we use the SysMaster DB which contains the metadata for all DBs on the box as opposed to hitti...
over 10 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Users to provision their Data

Data Click is part of Information Server Metadata server . Which allows users to provision their data . So far this product support few databases . Request is to support below databases Teradata to HadoopTeradata to green plumFile to whateverWhate...
over 10 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Mandatory comments for soamcontrol

Request to make mandatory comments for suspend/kill/resume session and task, and disable app.
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Future consideration

[User Interface and Configuration] Comment option for soamcontrol app

There are multiple teams manage apps. One team may not know why the app is disabled by another team. Hence, we request comment option for soamcontrol app command. Besides, there are comment options for both "kill session" and "kill task". It does ...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 4 Not under consideration

Change IGC UI font to display well in Unicode language

IGC UI by design uses "HelvRegularIBM" (Helvetica Neue Light for IBM). This font do not support characters like ậ ữ ế (specific in Vietnamese). So these characters look smaller/different. Please add functionality to change IGC UI font to display w...
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

istool export option to rename job

System: DataStageActor: User needing new feature IBM InfoSphere DataStage is an ETL tool and part of the IBM Information Platforms Solutions suite and IBM InfoSphere. Description: Our team uses istool for export/import job in command line. An expo...
over 10 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Audit log for users logging via WEBGUI

We would like below auto log for users logon via WEBGUI 1. Real desktop IP address to logon WEBGUI in audit log instead of WEBGUI server2. User list for logon WEBGUI on GUI
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Not under consideration

[User Interface and Configuration] Display child process ID on GUI

In Task Details tab on Symphony console, it displays the process ID for the SI for that task, however, it does not display any children process ids. We need to see the child process IDs that were started by the SI.
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Not under consideration

Cluster restart

While using the script egoshutdown.sh to shut down the cluster a lot of grid processes (pem and ssm) survive and turn into zombie processes.Killing these zombies after running the script egoshutdown.sh leads to "Blocked Hosts" after starting the c...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 3 Not under consideration

Add Blueprint Director back to IS suite

In Information Server 11.5 it is explicitly mentioned that Blueprint Director has been deprecated. No more integration with asset types in catalog and no more diagramming tool available as part of the suite license. In my opinion, the tool really ...
over 10 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration