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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Propose VarChar - lenght 20 by default instead of char 5

In IDE, in Data Perspective, when adding a column, propose VARCHAR by default instead of CHAR which is restrictive.
about 5 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 0 Not under consideration

Include Java Web Start capability into the product by default

The Java Web Start (JWS) code example has improved usability and administration considerably in the enterprise context, especially where applications are updated frequently. Without JWS new versions need to be distributed manually to all users and...
about 5 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 1 Not under consideration

Need Custom Property Editor Extension in Business Console

Currently, ODM 8.9 does not provide extension points for custom property editors in Business Console. This blocks customers with customizations in the Enterprise Console from upgrading to ODM v8.9 Business Console.
about 5 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 0 Not under consideration

Change PWD in Data Sources without redeploying application

When creating a datasource in the Studio tool for the purpose of pulling data from an external relational database to populate a scenario, the system requires that the connection information for the external RDB (including the password) be provide...
about 5 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 1 Not under consideration

Cplex jar under DOC does not allow to iterate on Parameter Set

As pointed out in the PMR, some APIs of CPLEX are not available in DOC. The following ones for instance would be usefull for us (JAVA sample) * Iterate over IloCplex.ParameterSet to display the changed parameters* set MipDisplay crashes with excep...
about 5 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 1 Not under consideration

Add keycloak extension to limit number of concurrent users

Create a keycloak extension that allows to limit the number of concurrent users logged into the system. This would help to be compliant with license agreements about floating users. Also, if a new version of keycloak already supports this option, ...
almost 2 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 0 Submitted

EGO_MASTER_LIST supports DNS alias

The client would like to be able to specify alias DNS name instead of official hostname for EGO_MASTER_LIST in ego.conf. For example, there are below master, master candidate, management hosts in the cluster. The left side is their official host n...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Not under consideration

persist width of Application name column under workload Health on dashboard

There are 30 characters of our application name. The width of applicaiton name under workload health on dashboard is not persist after navigate away and back.
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Planned for future release

VEMKD performance improvement by caching VEM_LOGON

When we do regression test say 800 instances, 50K slots, we found out VEMKD thinking a long time. By having checked performance, it took minutes to finish VEM_LOGON. We request to either cache logon information to eliminate unnecessary ones
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Future consideration

[Security and Access Control] /etc/init.d/ego status overiding default behavior - not according to standard, breaks monitoring and automation tool chain

The init.d script being rolled out with Symphony 7.1.0 is the same across all compute and management hosts. Running the script in its intended way with the status flag always results in the same message: -bash-4.1$ sudo service ego statusego servi...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Not under consideration