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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).


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


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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.

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


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Support ODBC to SQL Synapse

Today PA does not support an ODBC connection to a SQL Synapse database. This is a major shortcoming since this is a widely used database that is becoming more and more popular.
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add db2move option to read/write compressed files

Sometimes during a migration diskspace runs low. It would be great to have an option for db2move, which reads/writes files compressed or pipe it through gzip/bz2/... This would lead to a storage reduction during migrations of roughly 80% plus redu...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard drill though changes

When I attempt to connect a drill through report to a dashboard, my only choices to pass to the drill through report are values in the dashboard. My drill through report has a prompt for Current, Official Report or Effective date, I would like to ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Filters for Mobile Dashboard

At the moment, it is very easy to create filters on desktop for different metrics on a page level dashboard. Unfortunately, the page-wide applied filters doesn't affect the metric when viewed on the mobile app - IBM Cognos Analytics Mobile. It wou...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

A mobile focused Dashboard Template

I know there is an app called IBM Cognos Analytics Mobile and it's purpose is to show dashboard and exploration created via desktop. Unfortunately, a designed dashboard on desktop doesn't fit a mobile device and metrics just render blandly. My ide...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Filter list of elements based on data in PAx set editor

Need the ability to filter a list of members based off of data within the cube as you were able to do in Perspectives
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Licenses report incorrect despite the execution of a consistency check

Issue: When we invite a user to PA, the user ends up in the PANS namespace. When the user is removed from PA, the user is still defined in Cognos namespace and is not removed. Expected Result: User is removed from PANS namespace and any entry in t...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 2 Not under consideration

User interface to provide correlation between Db2 packages and load module

Pain Point: Housekeeping of Db2 packages (deletion of old, no longer needed application packages) is done subsequently to the houskeeping of the corresponding load modules on the loadmod. Today we use the contoken to correlate the load module with...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Support of MultiByteCode for IBM i Agent

We have to store data from different IBM i Systems from several countries, with diffent local encodings (DE/AT = CCSID 273, NO = CCSID 277, BE = 500, ...) into one target schema. Therefore we descided to use for character fields the data type NCHA...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Share WKC Metadata by column with DataStage

(I'll post a second Idea with Watson Studio also) When Data Assets have been documented/Business Metadata has been added, like Description, Business Term and so, this is a great value for Data Engineers. They need this information to build their d...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration