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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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Read Parquet Schema from Origin that can be used in the Pipeline

When a Parquet file saved from a previous pipeline where the schema was inferred from the record, the parquetSchema field does not appear to be populated correctly. It appears to be an Avro schema and in the destination stage when the Parquet Sche...
about 3 hours ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Allow the Schema Generator to be able to use Complex Data Types for Parquet and Avro

The schema generator currently is only able to generate basic schema. For example a map with mixed data types is considered complex and will cause an error: { "answers":{ "field1": "somestring", "field2": 123 } } SCHEMA_GEN_0007 - Map '/answer...
about 3 hours ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Utilize SSL certificates in Platform Connections

External content stores are registered as Connections in CPD platform with the credentials and SSL certificates. However, the certificates are not automatically imported/copied when configuring an instance of Cognos. It requires an additional step...
about 3 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted

Db2 Developer Extension - Add support to execute external COBOL stored procedures from catalog list, save input parameters and reload saved values as well as generating DDL and dropping the stored procedure

Application Developers use Data Source Explorer in Data Studio to display external COBOL stored procedures from the db2 catalog. They right click and get options to run the stored procedure after inputting values, generate the DDL and can also dro...
about 3 hours ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Submitted

Implicit TS/IX Objects - Need DDL capability, ALT on IX

Need the ability to enter DDL command and get the DDL. Also ALT command needs to work on implicit IX.
about 6 hours ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted

Messages improvements

From DVM Studio when selecting a BIGSQL table that the user is not authorized to, we get back a misleding Column metadata error. We would like to have a better handling of this situation.
about 14 hours ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Submitted

Allow Category Definitions for Numeric attributes with ID formatting

Attributes when defined as numeric with ID formatting does not allow for the definition of categories. We have attributes that were historically defined as ID formatting for which we would like to define categories without changing the formatting ...
1 day ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Submitted

StreamSets does not support cursor based pagination

StreamSets HTTP Client origin supports a variety of different pagination methods, but does not provide out of the box support for cursor based pagination.
1 day ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Increase NRS backup size limit

Current NRS backup limit is about 2TB, this is kind small to us as we had NRS failures because the backup size exceeds the limit A larger NRS backup size can help to avoid nrs failures.
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Powerplay Studio / PowerPlay as a container

*** Please note: IDEA for a future evolution of CA on Software Hub ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/software-hub/5.1.x?topic=new-cognos-analytics ) *** PowerPlay Studio / PowerPlay as a container required to allow smooth transition from Cognos Analyt...
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted