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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


ADD A NEW IDEA

All ideas

Showing 839

Dimension Editing in PAW needs more Safeguards to Prevent Catastrophic changes

It is far to eash to "corrupt" a dimension in PAW. Others have noted that defaulting to dimension editing when double-clicking could allow admins to inadvertently make changes. The warning about immediately applying changes is helpful. My specific...
about 12 hours ago in Planning Analytics 1 Under review

Parity of watsonx.data with Databricks and Snowflake Engines (Focus on Performance)

Dear IBM Product Team, I am writing to propose an urgent enhancement request for our watsonx.data service, specifically addressing the discrepancies in parity and performance between its implementation with Presto Java and Presto C++. Parity: Curr...
about 21 hours ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review

Allow for clear text NEWAUTHID in SYSIBM.USERNAMES

We use SYSPROC.DSNLEUSR to encrypt usernames and passwords that are stored in the DSNLEUSR table, The procedure encrypts both NEWAUTHID and PASSWORD. It becomes difficult to manage the SYSIBM.USERNAMES table as we cannot see the NEWAUTHID in clear...
1 day ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Alphabetical Sorting of Custom Attributes in Business Glossary Filters

When filtering the Business Glossary by Custom Attributes, the list of attributes appears unordered. We request that these attributes be listed alphabetically to improve user experience and ease of navigation during filtering.
1 day ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Auto-Assignment of Data Owner/Steward to Business Terms Based on Category

When a Data Owner or Steward is assigned to a Business Term Category, we would like that assignment to automatically propagate to all Business Terms under that category. This would significantly reduce manual overhead for governance roles.
1 day ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Reduce restrictions of ADD PARTITION

“ALTER TABLE ADD PARTITION” is not available when target table holds uncommitted(not materialized) definition change. In most cases “MAXVALUE” is selected as limit key value because Partitioned-Table of TABLE-CONTROL cannot hold data exceeded the ...
5 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Improve the flexibility of changing PARTITION key

When to change PARITITION keys in multiple PARTITIOIN, a validation routine to check the data consistency runs every time ALTER command (ALTER TABLE ALTER PARTITION) is executed. In most cases we change the key value for multiple PARTITION keys an...
5 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Preventing DBD Lock when changing PARTITION key

There’s a possibility that status becomes AREOR when PARTITION key in PBR is changed by “ALTER TABLE ALTER PARTITION”. We strongly request you to revise the function NOT to set DBD Lock at this moment. It’s hard to say that changing PARTITION key ...
5 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Prevent immediate reflection of PARTITION key changes

When changing partition key of PBR using ALTER TABLE ALTER PARTITION, it may take effect immediately without AREOR status under certain conditions, so please provide an option to allow PARTITION key changes to be reflected in the AREOR state upon ...
5 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Lookup tables history tracking

Add a functionality similar to Audit History on catalogs to lookup tables. On lookup tables there is currently no way to track changes so any object that requires any history tracking needs to be defined as a catalog. This is many times unnecessar...
5 days ago in Product Master 0 Under review

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.