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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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Allow search results returned by a full text search to be configurable

Allow the search results returned by a full text search done by the magnifying glass at the top of the screen to be configurable so that as well as displaying the 'Primary id', it can also display other columns which are useful in identifying the ...
about 3 years ago in Product Master 1 Functionality already exists

OPL shall generate concert model with column API

OPL fails at building very large scale models due to the fact that it uses a "row api" of concert : Variables are created and added then to the range constraints. Unfortunately, such API can become dramatically slow for very large models, and buil...
about 6 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Not under consideration

Pain Point - CA Dashboarding - allow users to search pins based on tags

CA Dashboarding - allow users to search pins based on tags. There is a search capability, but there is nothing to search by. Need an easy way for user to find pinned widgets.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Pass the dbname in parameter to the view

The Scenario: We use IDMS database and we have a lot of dbname in our organization. The Problem: We have to define a virtual table and a virtual views for all of our dbname. This create a lot of redundant work. Proposed solutions: The possibilitie...
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

IDMS in Update

The Scenario: We can use DVM to access data in retrieval but we need an other solution to update the IDMS database. The Problem: It’s not possible to update IDMS databases. Current workarounds: Currently we need to develop Z/OS Connect API and COB...
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Locked FastMap Export

Customer is expecting FastMap export option with feature to lock selective columns. As auditor has to perform tests on daily basis, using fast map is friendly option, however fast map comes with default fields, where user can make any mistakes, or...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

TI LOGGING

need for 2 functions internal to a TI process : - Ability not to log the tm1server.log : very useful for sub processes that are called thousand times. - Ability not to log the tm1s.log without using the cubesetlogchanges that requires a lock and g...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

MODIFY with DELETEDS and DSN not cataloged printing message as ERROR... and completing with RC4. Should be WARNING instead of ERROR.

Reviewing the output, it is concerning seeing a message with ERROR in the text. DSNU1323I ERROR DELETING IMAGE COPY DATA SET FOR object-type.object-qualifier.object-name DSNUM part-number DSN=dataset-name This is not an ERROR but a fact of lif...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Provide value for MAXTEMPS parm in percentage of total dasd space and create 2 separated options for sort and dgtt workfiles

The introduction of new parameter MAXTEMPS, to avoid the situation where one task monopolize all temporary tablespaces space, with only an absolute space value as an option leaks flexibility. 1) We need to have two parameters, one for sort areas a...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Send IFCID 317 data to SMF when stmts leaves cache

There is currently no way to get the text of a dynamic SQL statement when it leaves the cache. If one has IFCID 316 turned on, one can collect the SQL usage metrics in SMF, but not the text. One can get the statement text if one uses the EXPLAIN s...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration