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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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Ability to reorganize Custom Properties, Classifications, Business Terms

Currently OOTB: 1- Custom properties are listed in alphabetical order 2- business terms and classifications are ordered by creation date We cannot change the order once it is assigned. Why it is important, For Example - we have assigned a Term whi...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Materialized Query tables in DB2 z/OS with refresh immediate option

MQT's - Materialized Query tables - are a well known feature in all advanced relational database systems. The DB2 family has this feature since more than 10 years. If you look at this functionality in DB2 LUW and DB2 z/OS the MQT functionality loo...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 7 Not under consideration

Show format Icons for saved output versions

Please show the output format of saved outputs in the reports again similar to C10 so that users can see what format they will download when clicking on a report
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

HOT BACKUP (online) for DataStage Enviroment

We are wondering if there is some solution to do HOT Backup of DataStage environment ( online without necessary to turn on server maintenance mode, turning off active services, etc.). Our platform currently running 24/7? Is there a possibility of ...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Reduce the size of the field list in pivot table

In pivot table view, if it is configured to show the field list, this part takes up too much space, just for writting the message 'Drag.... message'. This is useless and takes space for real data.
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 1 Not under consideration

Menu action - Generate DOM in Data Perspective - should imperatively generate

Currently this action does not generate imperatively the DOM. It should, otherwise it defeats the purpose of such button.User wants the IDE to generate it. Just do it, please, do not try to outsmart me. I have good reason.
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 1 Not under consideration

OPL function to assign a initial value or fix te value to a variable

The only way to do a warm start is by using OPL script.it should be possible in the variable declaration to give a start value. the same way if you want to fix a variable to a value you need to 2 lines of code to fix the upper and lower bounds... ...
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

graphical dash board of the search console/log

have graph to represent the node through-put, number of active node, memory consumed, CPUs usage
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

use of GPU port for cplex

My question is if GPU processing could be introduced in MIP optimisation?
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Dantzig-Wolf-decomposition with CPLEX

Extend the CPLEX-API to let reformulate a problem by CPLEX, notably a problem - which could be solved efficiently by a DW-decomposition. It should be reformulated by CPLEX to a problem (its dual) which could be solved by CPLEX's benders algorithm....
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration