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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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Column formatting to auto show full contents of cells

Users currently have to set the column width of all columns independently, and this is not saved as part of the view definition, which means it has to be done each time the view is opened.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

New Role in DataStage

To satisfy the segregation of duties risk requirement we need a new admin role with below functionality.Assign project roles to InfoSphere DataStage suite users in the InfoSphere DataStage Administrator client •Use the Administrator client to crea...
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Request to add more stages in DFD Palette

We'd like to request for additional stages, "DRS connector" and "Checksum" stages in the web-based DFD (Data Flow Designer). Currently our ETLs are using those stages and not available in the DFD interfaces. It's not urgent but in near future if w...
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Balanced Optimization support Teradata temporal features

Balanced optimization should support the properties related to Teradata temporal tables included on the Datastage Teradata Connector.See also support case: TS001785246
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Create Web Rich Client to visualize Model Information (Gantt, Charts, tables)

The current ODME product embeds many fat client to display valuable Visual information for Optimized Business Use Case. The current usage of client has evolved :from an architecture point of view : fat client are not privileged by IT due to deploy...
almost 4 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 0 Planned for future release

Allow a mean to display units in views

Be able to specify units of value in views.
almost 4 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 0 Not under consideration

Extend CPLEX for Matlab to support the Matlab Compiler

CPLEX for MATLAB is an extension to IBM® ILOG® CPLEX Optimizers that allows a user to define optimization problems and solve them within MATLAB's development environment. However, an optimisation module developped with CPLEX for MATLAB and compile...
almost 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Tuning Tool should work for CP as well as CPLEX

The Tuning Tool only works for CPLEX. It should also be made to work for CP.
almost 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Allow for an option in the syntax of a (compiled scalar) SQL function to use RELEASE(DEALLOCATE).

Thread reuse and High performance DBATs are dependent on packages being bound with RELEASE(DEALLOCATE). But, there is no provision for the package associated with compiled SQL scalar functions to have RELEASE(DEALLOCATE) as an option. I have been ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

View dynamic cube messages in audit database or get notifications on failure via mail

When dynamic cubes fail to load or are unable to refresh their member or data cache, this is not logged in the audit database. The only convenient way to view these messages is via the cube messages in the cognos administration console. This way, ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration