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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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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 1 year ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Not under consideration

Features missing in DMC

1) We are not able to get the Display of DB Size for each database. Can you please help to get this enabled in DMC. 2) We are not having option to check the Backup status for each DB in DMC . Please help to get this enabled in DMC. 3) We would lik...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Not under consideration

Suppress "zero" option in Trace Cell function

Please provide an option to suppress zeros on the trace cell functionality. The new Trace Cell functionality in PAW is a great! Adding the ability to suppress zeros would make identifying problems quicker when there is a significant number of chil...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need JSON UDFs (JSON_TABLE, etc.) to perform similar to XMLTABLE

Need to performance (elapsed time, cpu time) for JSON UDFs to match or exceed XMLTABLE function.We will be using HTTPGETCLOB to invoke RESTful APIs for Web Services on non-mainframe platforms.Our DB2/Legacy applications will need to invoke these, ...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Using numerical attribute from Planning Analytcis within Cognos Analytics

TS000103720When using a Planning Analytics cube as a data source, numerical Attributes with the value of 0 are not visible in reports.Therefore, for the numeric value 0, there are no possibilities to filter or set a default value for any prompt it...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to rerun failed reports/jobs/agents in batch, from IBM Cognos Administration -> Past Activities screen

Why is it useful? In a busy production cognos analytics environments, when an unplanned outage occur, it's common to see multiple report/agent/job failures. Administrators need to go to "view run history", and rerun failed requests. It is very tim...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

JobScheduler - Option Daylight saving time switch

Dear all, Batchjobs are running with unix time. It would be great to have an option to turn off / on daylight switching time. (connection to unix time is correct, but any export to a human user is expected at the same time per day).
over 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Not under consideration

Joining a temporal table with an archive-enabled table

In DB2 z/OS V11.1, we getting a -20555 SQLCODE when trying to join a temporal table with an archive-enabled table. We were surprised to see it didn't work. The manual talks about those tables being “mutually exclusive”, which to me would mean ...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

drill-through in charts on PAW to other dimensions than row or column and/or connection to drill-process from a view

Hey, it would be nice to have the possibility to drill-through from charts to other dimensions than what is in row or column. And/or maybe to have the possibility if drilling-through from a view by drill-process to get on the fly the current chart...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable federation between db2 luw to SQLMI (AZURE)

Some of our Sybase data sources moved to SQLMI (AZURE) when we setup federation from db2luw to SQLMI (similar to sql server) its not working
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration