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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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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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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[User Interface and Configuration] Search criterial persist

Persist filter and search criteria are extremely inconvenience for shared users. We request to add search criteria/filter to be saved so that people can re-use the query without interfering others
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 4 Not under consideration

Information Analyzer using SAP R3 & BW pack

Information Analyzer should be able to access data via an available plugin such as the SAP R3 or BW plugin
over 10 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

[Usability][RFE] config file change log and monitor

config files especially consumerTrees.xml is often to changed. We would request a change to track who and what have changed.
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 4 Not under consideration

Maintaining connections with zOS DB2

This is really for DataStage but this interface prevents that selection. Various teams are struggling with maintaining connections with zOS DB2. The most pressing is when using the bulk loader option in the DB2 connector stage. The bulk loader bui...
over 10 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Enable dynamic debug for unavailable hosts:? Dynamically turn on LIM/PEM debug log for unavailable host

Currently we have a feature to dynamically turn on LIM/PEM debug for a particular host in OK state, and for this request we want to be able to dynamically turn on debug locally for LIM/PEM on a host even if the host appears to be unavailable in th...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 2 Not under consideration

Dynamic SSM Resource Group History Files to SFS

Dynamic SSM resource groups work well in Symphony 7 but for one issue. By definition a dynamic resource group does not contain management hosts but consists of regular compute hosts. These hosts do not know of the shared file system where session ...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Not under consideration

[Workload Scheduling Policy][WellsFargo]Task redundant scheduling on timeout

Please advise how to implement the following functions: 1, have task timeout for 500 seconds. 2, if a task run more than 500 seconds, reschedule the task on a new engine, but in the mean time, keep the original task running 3, for the original tas...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 5 Not under consideration

[Resource Management Policy][WellsFargo][RFE]Support transparent master fail-over

Currently, if primary master fails, symphony will fail-over onto secondary master. During this fail-over process, all of new clients/request will fail. This request is to ask for the "seamless failover", new clients should wait for new master.
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Not under consideration

[Workload Monitoring and Management] Automatic session type removal when removing service

When calling soam wsdl api sdRegisterAppUpdate with a fragment that has operation="Remove", it should be permitted to submit a fragment that specifies service name, but not session type name(s). In this case, all session types that reference the s...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Not under consideration

Import IMS metadata via a new connector

Information Server that will add the ability to import IMS metadata via a new connector?
over 10 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration