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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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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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Simplify expression evaluation notation and reference to variables

Currentlywe need a syntax of $ then a set of curly brackets {} and then a value. and for values, its record:value('/<the attribute>'). The above becomes very convoluted and long when you have a case statement of other long expressions. It wo...
18 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Make it easier to achieve advanced data engineering tasks within the UI instead of using Groovy

Currently many advanced tasks requires us to jump out of the standard UI capability and directly into Groovy. It would be worthwhile to consider if these can be done in a UI like framework and still wrapped into a single stage for execution. This ...
18 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/SSETS-I-115

It would enable newer capability like HTTP/2 for more streaming like access of our REST api and the data streamed back over it
18 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Provide API auth mechanisms such as JWT and OAUTH

Enables use of standard authentication methods and not just one build custom with StreamSets
18 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Enable rolling restarts of SDC as a standard pattern.

Currently, there are too many restarts of the SDC and all the SDC's dependent on the change in the deployment need to be restarted. Lets enable the restats to happen in a rolling manner, one SDC at a time. This capability is kind of available in a...
18 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Enable self-service deployment of new JARs, JKS and custom libraries without requiring NFS or S3 buckets and without requiring SDC restarts

Very often users want to add new jars or have their own java key stores. Currently, these are done administratively and that too requires an S3 or NFS location and then requires a restart of the data collector. This involves engaging the administr...
18 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Make Picklists Case Sensitive

Currently picklists in Planning Analytics are only case sensitive when directly inserting values into cells. When copy pasting values the picklist becomes case insensitive. This led to errors in some of our tools which are based on our TM1 databas...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Drill to Leaves from Right Click Menu

In an Exploration in Planning Analytics for Excel, it would be a huge time saver for an end user to be able to drill to leaves (or a level of their choice) from a right click menu. This is a common need for users. The set editor is a little heavy ...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Improve password character handling in DataStage for user accounts

Passwords are restricted to the characters that are supported. When using password management tools which change passwords after a checkout, these are defined company wide to be as complex as possible, following various Cyber standards. Some of th...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Support of Active Directory Groups or Cognos Groups in PAW local

At the moment there is no possibility to import user and Groups from Active Directory or Cognos to PAW. The users and groups have to be imported manually via csv File We would like to have the possibility to manage user and groups for PAW in Activ...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration