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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Group level credential mapping

Information Server admin console or Command line interface does not have a feature to credential map IIS group to engine credentialing ID. Please develop at least CLI command to credential map IIS group to engine user. This would allow all group u...
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Support for Oracle Advanced Security Option and Infosphere Information Server

This request is to establish a clear definition on what is supported with Oracle Advanced Security Option (OAS) and InfoSphere Information Server. Network level encryption is now available to all Oracle environments to use freely to have secure co...
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

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.
almost 4 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...
almost 4 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.
almost 4 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 0 Not under consideration

Have atoi and itoa in OPL

Today in OPL, ftoi is quite useful to convert float to int.What would help is to do conversions between int and string in order to be able to process strings as inputs or compute inputs. What we miss is atoi and itoa
almost 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Add Java perspective in the CPLEX Studio (IDE)

As in DOC, CPLEX studio should have a perspective with Java.In the install the IDE should be ready to use CPLEX, CPO, OPL and install the Java SDK....It would make so much sense to have everything ready in one IDE OPL Java (with cplex.jar, cp.jar....
almost 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Have a line number in OPL out of bounds errors

int E[i in 1..2]=2; int n=3; dvar int x[1..2] in 0..10; subject to { E[2] >=x[3]; x[1]<=2; } execute { writeln("ok") ; } gives an error but without line number. This is easy but in bigger models, it takes a lot of time to spot line numbers.
almost 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

C-like printf function for OPL Script

Need a nice fct for displaying floats ? like printf('%.2f') . identation. number of decimals. for string as well. for arrays as well
almost 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

support for date in OPL

Manipulating Date in OPL is tedious. One needs to load them as string, then use script to convert them in date and access fields of this script object (month / year ...). Furthermore, it is not even possible to create a Date from a string in scrip...
almost 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration