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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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enable on-line documentation in DOC Decision Optimization Center

It would be great to add online-documentation for each view displayed in Decision Optimization Center Client (Planner). The developers could therefore easily add description of the views that considerably help end-users to understand which kind of...
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 1 Not under consideration

Run optimization solver invocations in parallel

Extract from SAS PROC OPTMODEL COFOR new feature:Be able to run optimization solver invocations in parallel, in iterations of a concurrent FOR loop that is specified using the COFOR statement. The COFOR statement operates in the same manner as the...
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Calling external .NET code from OPL

Offers a way to interact with external code written in .NET from OPL.This feature would allow us to:• write a complex dedicated OR algorithm (such as a shortest path or flow algorithm) to be used as one step of a decomposed application• connect yo...
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Improve constraint priority attachment in OPL

Actually we have to use OPL script to attach a relaxation priority to a constraint. It will be easier to attach this priority at the creation of the constraint. Reason is that a constraint tupleset can easily include a priority field: tuple rvCons...
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Piecewise function with input as coordinate (x,y) of curve's points

the actual piecewise function in OPL takes as input abscissas and vector coefficient to construct the function.Many time people have user have the (x;y) coordinate. to do that you need to write OPL code to find the vector coefficient.Would be grea...
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Maintain Profile name for fields exported with Field Definition option

When migration releases between OpenPages environments, customers would need to export individual fields that were created in the source environment and import the fields to the target environment. Customer does not want to export the full object ...
11 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 1 Under review

Validation Field [$System Fields:Date Last Modified$]

I would like to create a calculation validation that uses Date Last Modified but it's not an available field. The use case is being able to reference this date to auto set a status to "Dormant" based off this date.
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 2 Future consideration

Enable Cognos to be installed as a Docker Container - zCX OpenShift

It will allow the Cognos Application to be installed in a Docker Container OpenShift inside zCX Open Shift (Container inside zOS)
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

IBM should consider releasing Db2 database software as an RPM

We currently create our own RPMs from the database software downloaded from Passport Advantage. This is time consuming and can be eliminated by having IBM package and distribute their software as an RPM for easier consumption like other DBMS vendo...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 2 Future consideration

Predefined standard roles for IBM Planning Analytics Enterprise\Express licensing in IBM Planning Analytics (TM1)

In IBM Planning Analytics there are predefined standard roles "Admin", "DataAdmin" and "SecurityAdmin". In Enterprise and Express licensing there is still the difference between "read and write" and "read only". To get a quick and easy license ove...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration