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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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Bring MATLAB interface back for CPLEX

Please bring back the MATLAB interface for CPLEX. We rely heavily on this feature since toolboxes we use are Matlab exclusive.
over 3 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 34 Future consideration

fix the Cognos license counts for users who don't login

After Capabilities updated, admin licenses are incorrectly showing counts for users who don't login. Analytics Administrator license count should match the number of System Administrators.
20 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Enhance OPTIM to default to "DOFILE_EXPANSION NO" on zOS.

Reduce SAVRS output by 90%. State Farm executes several thousand jobs a day when executing the scrubbing of our Enterprise Data Capture. If the underlying SAVRS datasets fill up, that causes problems, and they have to be prematurely migrated. Sinc...
20 days ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Write Current Compression Dictionary to Log

Write compression dictionary to the Log upon its creation. This would enable true independence of data capture from actual table space availability and/or status. By implication, this might eliminate the need to write the old dictionary to the log...
20 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Mapping Leaf Level Node to a Higher Level Node

We have a use case wherein we intend to link a Leaf Level Node in Manta to a Higher Level Node considering the functionality of process flow among the applications from different technologies. Manta may already have an understanding of IFPC hierar...
20 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Future consideration

Use DB2 Storclas for extents during TS Cloning

I would like an option where the CloningTool uses the StorClas from the DB2 catalog for newly created datasets (e.g. extents).Currently only the following options are supported: no specification means the SMS StrorClass is adopted from the origina...
20 days ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Read-Only Administration Role

When troubleshooting an issue it is often required to access the System Administration functions to see current activities, system status or to check configuration setting such as routing rules. However, as a System Administrator can also update s...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 2 Future consideration

Refactoring Assistant to advise where good spots are to slice COBOL applications.

A developer could be advised by the refactoring assistant what are good points to slice a COBOL program so that they safe a lot of time in analyzing the COBOL code. This will allow the developer to increase the number of modules/programs they can ...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

CDC Agent support HA/cluster by product itself.

In banking production environment, CDC agent are often across multi platform for different database, and CDC HA solution have to depend on different technology tightly with OS and different OS version, such as AIX, Linux. and the HA stack is often...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Not under consideration

ALTER TABLE DROP multiple COLUMNs

If you want do delete multiple columns of a table using "ALTER TABLE tbname DROP COLUMN colname", you currently have to execute many ALTER TABLE statements. The execution time increases exponentially with the number of columns to be deleted. If th...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration