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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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Connector to SPSS Modeler on CP4D read flat files with fixed sizes and not delimited

We need to provide the connector in CP4D to read fixed-size flat files, similar to the one available in the SPSS modeler classic out of the CP4D.
about 1 year ago in SPSS Modeler in Watson Studio 0 Submitted

Integrated Cluster solution on AIX: Move from TSA to PowerHA

DB2 has moved from TSA (Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms) to Pacemaker as integrated clustering solution on Linux. We use TSA in production, and we think this is a wise move, as TSA is not robust and manageable enough for a dependable s...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / pureScale 9 Not under consideration

Functionality to retrieve the outputs of a workflow directly within the assistant

Currently, it is not possible to retrieve the outputs of a workflow directly within the assistant. As a result, functionalities like parallel processing cannot be used to execute the workflow as a subaction, saving the output variables as assistan...
11 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Not under consideration

Possibility to customize name of Settings during export

This is meant as a further improvement of idea DVMZ-I-214. When exporting Repositories and JDBC Library settings it creates a Settings.zip file, It would be useful to have the ability to edit the name, as already possible for personal data sources...
9 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

OpenLineage Export to Alation

Thia is in continuation to an earlier Idea, https://ibm-data-and-ai.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/DATALIN-I-67, wherein the OpenLineage export is working only when it is connected to an auto-scanned source but the respective Alation data source catalog does...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 5 Under review

Controller Classic Transfer / Export Structures - make Controller Web Import Specs and Lookups selection specific

Instead of having to import all Controller Web Import Specifications and/or all Web Lookup tables, it would be helpful if you could select specific Import Specifications and Lookup tables. (especially as Transfer/Export Structures is IBM's work ar...
about 1 month ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Provide a toggle option via the Orchestrate UI to enable security

The current process to enable security for the embedded chat is time taking.
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

Enhancement Request to implement a priority queue for scheduling the MDI/MDE jobs

We request an enhancement to the MDI/MDE jobs schedules to replace the current First-In, First-Out (FIFO) queue with a Priority Queue system. This feature must allow users to define a priority level (e.g., High, Medium, Low) upon job submission an...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

DIS UTIL enhancement for FlashCopy - in COPY as well as in RECOVER

We have converted our copy schedule to FlashCopy. We run 10 jobs in parallel each job have between 500-600 objects in it. The DISPLAY UTILITY does not show the progress of the DFDSS copy. Db2 generates DFDSS commands for 80 datasets, but this is n...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Ability to customize content of MyTasks (e.g. additional columns/headers, etc.)

Currently, the content and layout of the My Tasks tab cannot be changed. Information is limited only to the ‘Type’, ‘Workflow Name’, ‘Stage’(Status), ‘Criticality’ and ‘Stage Due Date’. Some of this information may not be valuable to most of our u...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Under review