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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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enable on-line documentation in DOC Decision Optimization Center

It would be great to add online-documentation for each view displayed in Decision Optimization Center Client (Planner). The developers could therefore easily add description of the views that considerably help end-users to understand which kind of...
almost 4 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 1 Not under consideration

Run optimization solver invocations in parallel

Extract from SAS PROC OPTMODEL COFOR new feature:Be able to run optimization solver invocations in parallel, in iterations of a concurrent FOR loop that is specified using the COFOR statement. The COFOR statement operates in the same manner as the...
almost 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Calling external .NET code from OPL

Offers a way to interact with external code written in .NET from OPL.This feature would allow us to:• write a complex dedicated OR algorithm (such as a shortest path or flow algorithm) to be used as one step of a decomposed application• connect yo...
almost 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Improve constraint priority attachment in OPL

Actually we have to use OPL script to attach a relaxation priority to a constraint. It will be easier to attach this priority at the creation of the constraint. Reason is that a constraint tupleset can easily include a priority field: tuple rvCons...
almost 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Piecewise function with input as coordinate (x,y) of curve's points

the actual piecewise function in OPL takes as input abscissas and vector coefficient to construct the function.Many time people have user have the (x;y) coordinate. to do that you need to write OPL code to find the vector coefficient.Would be grea...
almost 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Improving latch contention in Db2 z/OS

DB2 workloads run at a priority that is related to their origin (may it be batch, IMS, DDF, …) and according to WLM service class definitions. In high system utilization scenarios, or due to workloads running in a WLM service class with a resource...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Websheets: Expand/collapse of grouped columns and rows (Excel grouping)

In websheets it would be useful, if the Excel function of grouping columns or rows would be supported in PA Spreadsheet Services. In this case, grouped columns or rows could be expanded and collapsed on demand.
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Administration Tool enhancement for SQL, DDL, DML syntax checking

Add enhancement to syntax check SQL, DDL, DML before execution. Recently attended presentation of Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS and it has a 'Smart Editor' which performed these checks. I asked about it and was told it is using macros from the DB...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

A clean Environments selector list for IBM cloud environments

Hello, Every single day I need to select multiple environments from the IBM PA Home page (https://www.planning-analytics.ibmcloud.com/). My list is such that there are almost 20 environments, and it will only grow. In a support ticket (TS014673742...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

REPORT RECOVERY - new syntax requested to externalise just the image copy and log datasets

REPORT RECOVERY provides the CURRENT and SUMMARY keywords but even for these options the job output is either very verbose (Unit of Recovery, SYSCOPY entries, Archive log datasets, volume numbers for the LOG datasets etc) or too little (just the v...
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration