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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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have the latest DOcplex package pre-installed

Hi, the docplex packages in python 2.7 or 3.5 are out dated. I find out when i tried the latest tutorial of DOCPLEX in DSX would be great that IBM package are up-to-date
almost 7 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Functionality already exists

Put time & geographic attributes into Framework Manager

FM as the development tool should handle all information on the data model. Adding overmodelizations in the portal is not logical and adds unnecessary complexity. It's a menu of too much
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Trigger an alert mechanism whenever a DML transaction is captured in between 2 DDL transactions on the same table

If we run a DDL-DML-DDL scenario and update the metadata of the table using dmreaddtable command and resume mirroring, the data is getting mapped incorrectly. This has been observed where the datatypes are similar and CDC starts capturing data wit...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

IBM.EntityFrameworkCore driver doesn't support GUID and BOOL data types with using db2 i series v7r1 databases

Hi, We are delevoping .Net Core project with EntityFrameworkCore that working with AS 400 i series Db2 V7R1. We use many data types but when we want to use bbolean or Guid field types Db2 says undefined name for boolean(bit) and Guid (uniqueidenti...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Future consideration

Optim Db2 LUW - LOAD support in IXF format when there are XML data type fields in the table.

Optim does not support to perform a LOAD process using IXF format when there are XML data type fields in the table. Note that IXF is a more robust/compact format to exchange data between Db2 databases. See cases: TS003467645 and TS003290043 (two d...
over 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Remove CHAR Space Padding In ODBC Driver 4.10

Other drivers (Informix JDBC / Open Link etc) have the ability to automatically TRIM trailing spaces from character fields - we badly need the same feature applied to ODBC. We note that the VARCHAR / NVARCHAR equivalent has just been added to ODBC...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Platform management UI health check enhancements

Situation: Currently there is no single holistic UI/command to validate the overall health of CPD and installed cartridges' /modules. Pain Point: some functionality or dependencies could be missing and users, application support would not know and...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 5 Functionality already exists

QW148TTK unreliable when thread is in-doubt

IFCID 0148 Monitor Detail Record 2 field QW148TTK is incorrect when the thread being reported is in-doubt and as evidenced by cross-checking with DB2 -DISPLAY THREAD output. Requesting either a correct QW148TTK for in-doubt threads or a means to d...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Option to disable PAX config options for users

We would like to see an feature or option to disabled the user specific options in PAX. In particular we would like to prevent users from being able to modify the data row limit setting and any other settings that would allow users to run large MD...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Make auditing Dashboard usage more straight forward

Currently, when looking at the audit logs around dashboard usage, a single run of a dashboard will show up multiple times, once for every widget on the page. There is no way to determine how often a dashboard is run without getting extremely infla...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration