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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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Hand-crafted MDX should retain formatting like line breaks and indents

When writing multi-line MDX, the formatting is crucial to being able to read the code, debug and make updates at a later stage. Saving the MDX without formatting means that the next time it is opened, you need to revisit the code, add in the forma...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

Improve Orchestrator Connection functionality for Control Hub REST API Processor

In SDC 5.12.0, there is a new Connection Orchestrator Connection which is available in all Orchestrator stages such as the Start Jobs stages. ControlHub Rest API Processor also supports this connection. The issue is that ControlHub Rest API stage ...
about 2 months ago in StreamSets 1 Future consideration

Conditional Formatting - Duplicate values

It would be beneficial if, similar to Excel, end users had the ability to see duplicate values (conditional formatting) within a selected dataset.
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Allow alter column to drop NOT NULL constraint

Currently the only way to remove the NOT NULL constraint from a column is to unload the table, drop-recreate table (or drop-add column) and reload table. Such a small change needs so much effort, and causes unnecessary outage and service disruptio...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Bring MATLAB interface back for CPLEX

Please bring back the MATLAB interface for CPLEX. We rely heavily on this feature since toolboxes we use are Matlab exclusive.
over 3 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 34 Future consideration

Data captured in long transactions with guaranteed delivery to destination

It is usefull because sometimes a very long transaction pass through the Capture process but can´t be delivered causing memory lack at destination. The benefit would be not losing the data transferred to the destination. One suggestion would be to...
11 months ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 2 Needs more information

CDC Agent support HA/cluster by product itself.

In banking production environment, CDC agent are often across multi platform for different database, and CDC HA solution have to depend on different technology tightly with OS and different OS version, such as AIX, Linux. and the HA stack is often...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Not under consideration

Connect license checkouts to jobs

Uniquely connect the license checkouts to jobs. The idea is to put a unique value into LM_PROJECT environmental variable and then get the LM_PROJECT value via lmstat using the -lm option to display the project value. This will allow LSF, LS and RT...
20 days ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Under review

Enable alternative authentication methods for S3 buckets

We’re currently working with a client on an opportunity that impacts multiple products, including watsonx.data, CP4D, Data Virtualization, and Data Gate. The client is eager to adopt our lakehouse solution but has stringent security requirements t...
20 days ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review

underscore character in "endpoint" name

in IBM planning Analytics Cloud, under Satellite Connector, when try to create endpoint, underscore charactor is not allowed in the name. can you support allowing endpoint name to have underscore character?
20 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted