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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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Ability to control cplex memory consumption

Nowadays optimization runs are more and more conducted in the cloud, in kubernetes environments. In kubernetes, the processes run inside containers in what are called pods. To prevent a pod to be killed when the node (machine) capacity is exceeded...
almost 2 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Submitted

a new parameter to control to force MIPStart if the variables are feasible

CPLEX choose to use MIPStart or not accoring to the heuristic. But sometimes the user think MIPStart values as particular variables is the best way to solve the problem. So we’d like to request a new parameter to control to force MIPStart if the v...
over 2 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Not under consideration

IBM DataStage support PostgreSQL

The "official document or information for IBM DataStage 11.7 support PostgreSQL 13.x under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x" could not get now. Same situaation as PostgreSQL 14.x.
over 3 years ago in Information Server 1 Not under consideration

OPL Lazy Constraint Pool

At http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21681643, it is indicated that it is not possible to add lazy constraints in OPL Script. I know OPL is not a programming language, but it is quite important to be able to add lazy constraints in ...
over 6 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 1 Not under consideration

More efficient ISALite Check for IMAM import area connections.

Part of the ISALite general health check includes a check for InfoSphere Metadata Asset Manager (IMAM) Import Area connections. Specifically, it test the connection for every single Import Area to ensure they're still valid/functioning. This quick...
almost 8 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

In OPL ODBC connection, add a setting for batch size

The prebuilt ODBCConnection allows OPL to access databases using ODBC. One way to optimize database access is to tune the execution batch size. With older versions of OPL that included DBLink, this was the dbUpdateBatchSize parameter.
about 4 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 1 Future consideration

istool import asset values -cao option to be available in IGC UI

1. Product: IGC2. Associated PMR: TS0014637973. Describe the requirement: Would like istool import asset values -cao option to be available in IGC UI4. Use Case: APAR JR60264 addresses performance issue with custom attribute only updates in asset ...
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Planned for future release

IGC Workflow - more filtering options

We are having some challenges with working with a high volume of assets for review in IGC workflow, and unable to narrow the information down into a manageable list.
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

Ability to run lineage at Term Level

We have a business requirement to view the Lineage Graph of a Term in IGC Glossary.However, we know that currently its not possible to run lineage on terms or categoriesWhat would be the best way to therefore show lineage for a term in IGC
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 2 Not under consideration

IGC support FROM <DATABASE>.<SCHEMA>.<TABLE>

The Labs (development team) confirmed that only FROM .orFROM could be parsed for the SQL embedded in an ODBC Connector.The request for FROM .. is an Enhancement Request.
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration