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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.

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Service Package Version Reset and/or Forsibly Deploy

If Symphony shared directory was restored by some reasons (ex. Disaster Recovery, Hardware Renewal, Hardware broken, etc.), RS couldn't deply newer SI package until the version number was incremented to the version number deployed on compute node....
about 12 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

[Support Matrix] Matrix - Oracle Standard Edition support for Symphony 6.1.1

We changed the Oracle support policy from v6.1.1 and it make customer hard now.Symphony v6.1.1 support only Oracle Enterprise edition.It is barrier for customer to upgrade Symphony now. Old version Symphony (v6.1.0.1, v5.x) supported Oracle and it...
about 12 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Every logon attempt should be logged with source IP information

Every logon event should be logged and with source IP address. This is for audit purpose, and also for identifying the source host that issues failed attempts.
about 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1.2 1 Future consideration

[CE] Platform Symphony Management GUI - Solaris Sparc - BBK

We use a Symphony Version 5.0 in a pure Solaris 10 Sparc 64 bit Infrastructure including the Platform Management Console GUI. All used servers are based on Solaris Sparc architectureThe Symphony Grid infrastructure is implemented in two regions --...
about 12 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

IA Data Rule Set

End users view is that when creating DRS (data rule set) based on Data Rule(s) then DRS would just group existing Data Rules and execute those in a bundle.
about 6 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 0 Not under consideration

Additional Formatting in Asset Properties

We are putting code values into the a custom attribute called valid values. The code and description do not line up correctly. Tabluar format with bolded headings would be ideal.
about 6 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 3 Not under consideration

Filtering assets in IGC

Filtering assets in IGC is difficult due to going from left side to right side. Once we want to go to right side we need to be very careful with mouse button as it is easy to filter another asset by mistake and then need to go back.
about 6 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

Inclusion of DBMS name for ODBC connector in IMAM of IIS Suite

We have requested IBM to find if there is way to input the DBMS name (as per the below link) in IMAM for ODBC connector. - https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSZJPZ_11.7.0/com.ibm.swg.im.iis.mmi.doc/topics/c_identity_parameters.html Th...
about 6 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

On main page of WEBGUI, wrong default behavior when sorting by column in symphony apps or ego servcies

If one wants to sort by running tasks by clicking on Task[Running] button, the default result from this sorting is "ascending"instead of ascending. Why would user wants to see 0 running task applications first... The same issue happens in ego serv...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

Request to have app profile level settings to limit number of tasks executed in a persistent service instance

In a large cluster shared by 100's of applications from different LOBs, quite often, the a bad application workload might crash or disable servers by:1) over consumption of system memory2) filling up the root file systems with core files3) etcIn t...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 2 Not under consideration