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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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API or CLI for MDS management

Add support in REST API or CLI for configuration of all aspects of MDS Plans. This includes • Get MDPlan.xml• Add, remove plan (distribution tree)• Add, remove consumer• Add, remove resource group• Change resource group preference• Update OverComm...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Planned for future release

Add a project setting for table-level (top) Analyze button in new IGC

We want to prohibit users from Analyzing a full table under certain conditions, for example, on a project basis. For projects that have very large data sources, running column analysis on a full table uses too many server resources and also fills ...
over 5 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 0 Not under consideration

History / Audit Trail for changes Data Rules, Data Rule Definition, etc on Information Analyzer

If there is any history in IA regarding config changes from IA including Rule? For example, previously field A = 1, becomes field A = 2. Is there a history or notification regarding this change on the IA Client?
almost 6 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 2 Not under consideration

Backport SNMP event for SOA_FAILED_TO_ACCEPT_CLIENT to Symphony 7.2.0-2

from IBM documentation the integer value for the error message is the following:SOA_FAILED_TO_ACCEPT_CLIENTComponent name: SYMReturned integer: 75089Error The OS communication system returns an error while attempting to accept a new client's conne...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 1 Future consideration

[SDK and API] - ISO compliance for Symphony Client c++ headers

symphony client c++ header files are not ISO compliant
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 5.1 3 Not under consideration

Adding session close info into INFO log.

When the SSM is running as normal level log, we need to have into info logs all metrics that will be interesting to know when we reach SSM limitation. THe most important metric for use to have is : - Active live session- Yield taskbut others metri...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 2 Future consideration

add support for SIs in containers on Windows

Add feature parity for running service instances in containers. This page should be equally applicable to both windows and linux - https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSZUMP_7.3.0/management_sym/docker_overview.htmlTo the extent that windo...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Planned for future release

Ability for admin to set option in Items per page

Possibility for administrator to specify which default mode applies to the number of "Items per page" in "Result view" (e.g. in list for Logical Entities). This also applies to ISGC-I-243 (Need way to Save List Options applied to Result sets)
almost 6 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

IBM Glossary Anywhere for Linux Version

We need a version of IBM Glossary Anywhere (IGA) for Linux operating system.
almost 6 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

Flat file wizard cannot be able to see a network location for data profiling

Flat file wizard cannot be able to see a network location for data profiling. The problem is that the concept of a map drive does not exist in a session-less context (i.e., a Windows Service). The workaround has been to store the flat files locall...
almost 6 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 0 Not under consideration