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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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End User UI enhancement (Custom charts)

Problem Statement: Currently, we provide clients the flexibility to choose their own risk matrices. However, when using the dashboard chart, the filter options display extra values and expose certain values that users should not have access to. Wi...
1 day ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Submitted

Add Python 3.14 binary wheel distributions for CPLEX

Add Python 3.14 binary wheel distributions for CPLEX The Python Package Index only contains distributions of CPLEX up to and including 3.12 (see https://pypi.org/project/cplex/#files). Please upload wheels for Python 3.14 (yes - let's skip 3.13 en...
14 days ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Submitted

Image resize that translates to Cognos Reports

When using the CKEditor in OpenPages, you can resize images using the corners. Unfortunately, when you run a Cognos report, the image shows in its original size as when it was uploaded. In order to make images the appropriate size for the PDF repo...
9 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 0 Submitted

service level backup for openpages

would need automated service level backup for open pages alone so in cases where there are multiple services being consumed and a cluster level backup might loose progress in restoration, scenario 1:customer is using openpages and cognos but two d...
22 days ago in OpenPages Ideas 0 Submitted

Show Excel in Cognos Toolbar instead of Excel when an output format of a report with a prompt page is XLS

Now when the output format of the report with the prompt is Excel (in Cognos is Excel. in OpenPages is XLS), the toolbar shows HTML. If the outcome in OpenPages is spreadsheetML, then the Cognos Toolbar displays Excel, that's the expected behavior...
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Submitted

Conflict refiner for heirarchical goals

Idea: Create a multi-level / hierarchical conflict refiner Given a formulated problem that has multiple goals with different priorities, hierarchical goals, if the solution from the first level makes the second level infeasible it is not easy to r...
4 months ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Submitted

Proposal for an Official CPLEX R Package for Seamless RStudio Integration

I’d like to suggest that IBM develop and maintain an official R package for the CPLEX solver. Today, R users must rely on a handful of hard-to-install third-party libraries, whereas competitors like Gurobi ship a polished “gurobi” package that ins...
5 months ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Submitted

Add Python 3.12 and 3.13 binary wheel distributions for CPLEX

The Python Package Index only contains distributions of CPLEX for 3.11 (see https://pypi.org/project/cplex/#files). Please upload wheels for Python 3.12 and 3.13.
almost 2 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 1 Submitted

Empty links in CPLEX Optimization Studio Documentation

There are many 'empty' links/pages in the CPLEX Optimization Studio Documentation when I search for topics. I limit the scope to CPLEX and IDE, but still get many, many blank results. I spend a great deal of time clicking through blank pages to fi...
over 1 year ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Submitted

Add maximal delay constraint for startBeforeStart, startBeforeEnd, ... constraints

I often have a constraint between interval variables that limit the maximum delay between the start/end and start/end of interval variables. I'd like a native, efficient method for implementing this constraint. I currently use constraints using fu...
over 1 year ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Submitted