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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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OPL interface for Matlab

Would be great to have not only a Matlab interface to CPLEX, but to OPL as well. It would facilitate. model deisgn (.mod) using OPL (way easier than working directly with CPLEX. model modification, re-run, post/pre-processing computations using a ...
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Future consideration

Activity event monitor and CGTT

Usually section actuals after being prepared with explain_from_activity and db2exfmt has a section called “Runtime statistics for objects Used in Access Plan”. This section has valuable information for the problem analysis. If a Statement uses Cre...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Full interactivity should be set to 'No' for reports copied from older versions

The property ‘Run with full interactivity’ should be set to 'No', by default, for reports which are copied (using copy-to-clipboard), from reports originally built in older versions of Cognos. Currently in C11, reports 'migrated' (export/import) f...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

prompt select and search option of search

I want to set the default option for search example "contains.." not "starts with.."
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

A tool to copy statistics between environments

A tool to copy statistics between environments, currently this has to be done manually in an unsupported way. This would also allow refreshing statistics on a copy of the environment without needing to refresh the schema e.g . nightly copies. Also...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

enhancements to sysprocedures table and dbschema utility

Currently, there does not appear to be anything in the sysprocedures table to identify which procedures are provided by Informix (system routines) vs those created by users (user routines). The mode column does not appear to address this particula...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

CDC needs to be able to "Refresh" tables in Parallel

We have extremely large tables which are replicated and targets are in cloud. Normally all the tables are grouped in few subs. During the initial refresh process , the tables are loaded in sequential order one by one and it takes several hours to ...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

parallel insert into row organized table

parallel insert is only supported on Column organized table. insert into row_table select * from souce_table is very slow
8 months ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Future consideration

Ability to email notifications to users

Provide external notification of report completions, via outlook (email) or other notification of choice.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

MER - enable checking line length (number of characters in one line) in fields with free input

In the fields in message in MER, which are free input during entry, there is no check of line length or number of lines. You can write unlimited in one line. There is no entry like in MERVA. Only purely structured fields, i.e. those with options A...
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 2 Functionality already exists