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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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IBM Cognos Analytics 11 - Dashboards - Summary Visualization Conditional Palette

Hello, This is Rui Gonçalves from BI4ALL. I'm currently working in a project using IBM COGNOS ANALYTICS DASHBOARDS and evaluating the possibility to provide to the client the type of analysis and visualizations required. I noticed that IBM Cognos ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Array job maximum running jobs should be honored across multiclustered environments

Our users submit array jobs, but due to many factors may want to limit the number of running tasks at a time, not only from the source cluster, but total running jobs of that array for all clusters involved ( we have many clusters that use multicl...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Delivered

Improved relationship explorer

WKC should have a relationship explorer that can easily visualize all links between any governance artifact all the way down to the source data User Story As a business user, I need to easily see how different governance artifacts are related to e...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

IPL Index Build performance

On large Index Builds with LOG_INDEX_BUILDS enabled the performance of the IPL thread degrades drmatically if the whole index cannot be held in BUFFER CACHE. Once a required page is swapped out of BUFFER Cache then the IPL thread reads the require...
about 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Incumbent callbacks during polishing

I keep hitting this issue where I have to use something like an incumbent callback from CPLEX in order to report progress, use a custom stopping criterion, save intermediate solutions, etc. This works fine in normal CPLEX B&B, but it seems tha...
about 7 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 2 Delivered

Map Visualization: make maximum legend items configurable. Current limit is 100.

When using a 11.1 Map visualization with a Points layer, it’s not possible to have the legend show more than 100 items. We have a dataset with 134 items, but the visualization cuts off the legend at 100 items even though the legend is scrollable a...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Delivered

DataStage MQ Connector does not use the user Id and password while setting up the connection

We tried to set up a connection from DataStage using MQ Connector to the MQ server that only works when there is no password authetication configured at the MQ end. The connection fails when MQ team enabled force password authentication while Data...
almost 9 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

Adjustable Number of MPS Daemons for GPU Sharing

For now, IBM Spectrum LSF allows automatically instantiating one single MPS Daemon when requested through the '-gpu' directive:---gpu 'mps=yes:[...]'-- However, it has proved beneficial in several performance benchmarks conducted on different clie...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Dynamic schema and form

Use cases to consider:1. User selects USA v Canada and gets different options after (postal code v zip code) 2. User is accessing excel online and will have different sets of columns based on what excel they select 3. User is accessing Jira and ba...
almost 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Delivered

Informix incremental backups (L1)

Hi, L0 and L1 backups of informix are taking almost same time since it seems that is limited by disk reading performance: we are using IBM spectrum backup to backup. From IFX logs we see that they are using /usr/informix/server12/bin/onbar_d...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered