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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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Allow initialisation using OPL of arrays within tuple sets

In OPL it is not possible to initialise an array which is within a set of tuples either through values or programmatically. An enhancement should be made to OPL to allow this. Consider: {string} Factors = {"a","b","c"}; tuple T_2 { key int i; int ...
about 5 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Not under consideration

Support WITH RECURSIVE in PrestoDB (watsonx.data)

PrestoDB in watsonx.data doesn't support WITH RECURSIVE statement which is a blocker for selling watsonx.data to some of our potential customers. It would be important to have it supported as other data lakehouse solutions support it. For example ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.data 1 Future consideration

Full Information Maximum Likelihood method(Estimation method to assign missing values)

I would like to see "Full Information Maximum Likelihood (FIML)" added as a missing value assignment method in SPSS Statistics. FIML is a powerful method for handling missing data in statistical modeling. By using all available information in the ...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Submitted

Safer Payments & http protocol

Safer Payments server stops responding when sending requests with HTTP header "Transfer-encoding: chunked" Use case Sample: curl -k \ -X POST https://safer-payments.uat.feci.geci:37911/ \ -H "X-SP-Protocol-Version: 1" \ -H "Accept: application/jso...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Not under consideration

Support Alation Authentication methods

Current State: Alation currenltly supports two ways of authenticating ( https://developer.alation.com/dev/docs/authentication-into-alation-apis ) 1. Register your application (Manta) as an OAuth 2 client 2. Use a refresh token Manta currently supp...
over 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 3 Delivered

Manta microservices should restart automatically on failure.

Current State: 1. When a Manta user scans a large amount of SAS scripts or MS SQL tables, Manta Flow Server crashes due to out of memory (TS016760059). The cause of the memory issue is being addressed by the issue, but this product idea is this: a...
over 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2

Debugger: Filter variables

As a user, all possible variables of the TI process are currently displayed to me in the debugger. After each step, the view of the variables jumps back up again, making effective debugging difficult. I would like to have 1) a filter option to fil...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Delivered

Have a line number in OPL out of bounds errors

int E[i in 1..2]=2; int n=3; dvar int x[1..2] in 0..10; subject to { E[2] >=x[3]; x[1]<=2; } execute { writeln("ok") ; } gives an error but without line number. This is easy but in bigger models, it takes a lot of time to spot line numbers.
about 5 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Not under consideration

"If and only if" for indicator-constraints in MATLAB API

We use the CPLEX for MATLAB API to solve a MILP. In our case the bottleneck of the API is the limited functionality of indicator constraints. Whereas in OPL and the Java API an "if and only if" statement is possible, this functionality is missing ...
about 5 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Not under consideration

Create an API for IFI reads (306) so Log-Reading Software does NOT need to be APF-Authorized

Like a lot of shops, we replicate a lot of our Enterprise data from our programmatic Db2 for z/OS environment to other Db2s and other off-platform DBMSes for MI and analytics, and for high availability. IIDR now provides the ability to do this via...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration