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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    Talend-spark ETL job support on watsonx.data Spark engine.

    A customer is using Talend studio to develop and run ETL job that uses Apache Spark on CDH 7.1.7. It will be a plus point for watsonx.data to support integration with Talend use the watsonx.data Spark engine to run the same ETL job benefits - easy...
    2 months ago in watsonx.data 3 Under review

    Manage/view another users scheduled report/activities without using an Analytics Administrator license

    There are hundreds of scheduled reports that are managed by departmental users. if the owners of the scheduled reports are unavailable and/or the schedules need to be re-run, The Activities screen lets them see the progress of their activities in ...
    2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

    Drive Explorer - Sort by File Type should sort by file type text, not ascii character codes

    When sorting by file type in Drive Explorer, if sorted ascending, RUX files appear before cho and all other lower case file types. I opened a ticket and was told this is because the sort is done by ascii character code. This defeats the purpose of...
    9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

    Create schema asset when importing schemas

    Create an asset/object for the schema imported, along with its associated metadata like schema description. The new asset would be available at the catalog, and users would be able to see its relationship (data assets associated, business terms/cl...
    about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 6 Planned for future release

    Allow alter column to drop NOT NULL constraint

    Currently the only way to remove the NOT NULL constraint from a column is to unload the table, drop-recreate table (or drop-add column) and reload table. Such a small change needs so much effort, and causes unnecessary outage and service disruptio...
    almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Update Control Mechanism for Large-Scale Environments

    In large environments where multiple updates and implementations are occurring simultaneously, there is a need for an update control mechanism. For instance, consider an environment with several watsonx assistants, referred to as “sandboxes,” wher...
    11 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

    DSNTEP2/DSNTEP4 program parameter to specify the output record length without the need to recompile the program

    we are in the process of migrating IBM tools and utilities from a third party vendor to IBM software and we need a program to run SQL select statements in batch with an output record length greater than 133 characters. In the IBM manual for sample...
    8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Copy a Tab from one Workbook to another Workbook

    The function is required to copy a tab from one workbook to another workbook without recreating the Tab from scratch.
    about 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

    Manta to support dynamic calls in COBOL Scanner

    Background Assume there are two COBOL files (parent.cbl and child.cbl) In parent.cbl we see below lines // variable DATESUB contains child.cbl 77 DATESUB PIC X(08) VALUE 'child '. // parent calls child using variable DATESUB CALL DATESUB USING DAT...
    4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 3 Not under consideration

    Print LOAD Report on separated DDNAME

    During the execution of the LOAD utility, when a record is discarded, it appears first in the classification phase (limited to 2000 occurrences) and then in the load report (no limit). We want the report to be printed in a different DDNAME, differ...
    11 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Under review

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