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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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[RFE][Diagnostic and Debug-ability] - Audit - Log OS User name in EGO Service Controller audit log

EGO Service Controller Audit logs the EGO user and not the OS account issuing egosh command. Additionally, the EGO user is incorrectly logged when the same OS user logs in on different terminals.
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Matrix - Cloudera lastest version integration (CDH5.0)

SDMCC has ordered 70 PowerLinux box plus Symphony, GPFS to run big data analytics application, the application was developped at CDH5.0 (MRv2). Symphony MR to integrate with CDH can bring better performance, reliablity to SDMCC.
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

[Security and Access Control] Security - Kerberos - Support Kerberos Library outside of default install location

Kerberos libraries are installed in a non starndard location (outside of /lib and /lib64). Setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH helps except with VEMKD and PEM, which fail to start.
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

[Integration Requirement] SOAM - OpenR - Support recursive scheduling with OpenR

Provide the mechanism for Parent Child or recursive scheduling in the openR integeration with Symphony.
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Enhancement Request: Retry Mechanism for BigQuery Connector Streaming Inserts (InsertAll API)

a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } Title Enhancement Request – Implement Automatic Retry Mechanism in DataStage BigQuery Connector for InsertAll API Failure...
2 months ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

[Copy] The level of bundled open-source components should be clearly stated in the Release Notes or Technotes at the time of DataStage release. Additionally, the impact of differences in open-source components on DataStage should also be clearly indicated.

Currently, there is no mention of open-source components in the Release Notes (e.g. https://www.ibm.com/docs/ja/iis/11.7.0?topic=rn-infosphere-information-server-version-1171-fix-pack-5-releasenotes) or in the installation-related information prov...
about 1 year ago in Information Server  / DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Improve scalability for number of tasks and open sessions

It would be beneficial to have an unlimited number of tasks/open sessions. The current limits can be easily reached, and while individual users might remain within their personal limits, simultaneous launches from multiple users can exceed system-...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Option for exporting and importing the individual asset from thin client UI and thick client for Information Analyzer

This functionality is available at the command line using the istools command but is not available using the thin client UI. Having this functionality at the thin client UI layer will help achieve the import/export of individual assets from one pl...
over 4 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 0 Not under consideration

Availability of Export option in DEV and Import option in higher environments of IA UI

We request you to help us with exporting SQLVT from DEV to PROD in UI. We are unable to find the option. Kindly guide us on the same. For reference - TS008254334
over 4 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 0 Not under consideration

[Process]ToSlotRatio implementation across soam and ego

In symphony SOAM layer, in application profile, service instance has serviceToSlotRatio defined which tells the system how much cluster compute resources each symphony task would take upon execution.* Funny enough, there is no such serviceToSlotRa...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 1 Future consideration