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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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Propose VarChar - lenght 20 by default instead of char 5

In IDE, in Data Perspective, when adding a column, propose VARCHAR by default instead of CHAR which is restrictive.
about 5 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 0 Not under consideration

Include Java Web Start capability into the product by default

The Java Web Start (JWS) code example has improved usability and administration considerably in the enterprise context, especially where applications are updated frequently. Without JWS new versions need to be distributed manually to all users and...
about 5 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 1 Not under consideration

Need Custom Property Editor Extension in Business Console

Currently, ODM 8.9 does not provide extension points for custom property editors in Business Console. This blocks customers with customizations in the Enterprise Console from upgrading to ODM v8.9 Business Console.
about 5 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 0 Not under consideration

Optim audit tables retaining too much data

In the table Optim_Audit_Records, I see 1-2 records per archive/extract/insert. This appears to have started in Nov 2017 about when installed optim 11.3. Yet we have Optim Auditing turned off. So it appears that maybe Optim 11.3 started putting re...
over 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Forward, without local processing, bsub options to remote clusters

In multi-cluster scenarios, there should be no expectation that all the clusters are configured the same and/or support the same resources, slas, architectures, etc. Currently, when launching jobs with -sla, -m, and other options, the local schedu...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 1 Future consideration

Replace Open Data Manager...

No description provided
over 9 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Not under consideration

Change PWD in Data Sources without redeploying application

When creating a datasource in the Studio tool for the purpose of pulling data from an external relational database to populate a scenario, the system requires that the connection information for the external RDB (including the password) be provide...
about 5 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 1 Not under consideration

Cplex jar under DOC does not allow to iterate on Parameter Set

As pointed out in the PMR, some APIs of CPLEX are not available in DOC. The following ones for instance would be usefull for us (JAVA sample) * Iterate over IloCplex.ParameterSet to display the changed parameters* set MipDisplay crashes with excep...
about 5 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 1 Not under consideration

Allow Multi-Key Deletes from Parent Tables

Optim Data Growth currently has a restriction in place to disallow using a multi-key delete strategy on a Parent table. If you attempt to delete more than one key at a time, Optim will issue a severe warning code and then default the key limit to ...
almost 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Add keycloak extension to limit number of concurrent users

Create a keycloak extension that allows to limit the number of concurrent users logged into the system. This would help to be compliant with license agreements about floating users. Also, if a new version of keycloak already supports this option, ...
almost 2 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 0 Submitted