Skip to Main Content
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 2089

Symphony Alerting / notification mechanism through Webhooks

Spectrum Symphony and Spectrum Conductor are cluster managemet solutions that orchestrate running distributed workloads on a multitude of servers in the cluster. As such, they need to konw the state of the servers in the cluster. Traditionally, cl...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Future consideration

GitLab Integration (Scripts/Stream Version/Branch Management )

Users need to manage updating/reverting version/branches of scripts/data in CP4D projects.With limited feature in CP4DaaS, users cannot manage versions of their work products in CP4D projects. GitLab integration is required.(GitLab is preferable, ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Add support for Secure Network Communication (SNC) for SAP BW namespace and datasource connection

When SAP BW enables SNC (secure network communication) enforcement on their end, Cognos is not able to establish a connection with the existing connection details. Any connection attempts from Cognos error out indicating that SAP BW is expecting t...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

HADR: Ability to take incremental backups on either host and maintain the incremental chain for restore

In an HADR environment it is not possible to restore / recover the database with backups which are taken from both sites of the HADR cluster (after takeovers). You have to use the backups from the one site or from the other site. You can't mix the...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

See characteristics of query engine

See via the interface the characteristics of the query engines: number of workers, cpu, ram...
12 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Future consideration

Monitoring VPN Tunnel performance

As a Client using IBM Cognos Analytics on Cloud (hosted) we would like the ability to monitor performance, stability and connectivity of our IPSec VPN tunnel. This does not appear to be possible as a client self service capability with the current...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Future consideration

Allow fixed MAXLOCKS value even if LOCKLIST is AUTOMATIC

When LOCKLIST is set to AUTOMATIC, the MAXLOCKS setting cannot be set. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/locklist-and-maxlocks-database-configuration-parameters-and-lock-escalations In general this follows the concept of LOCKLIST AUTOMATIC, but th...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Future consideration

Whenever you offer 'Export to PDF' allow also export to csv (or some other computer-readable format)

PDF is fine as a document of its own, for sharing/documenting as a static copy. However, if we would try to further refine the info and join it with something else, then pdf is useless. Trying to extract same info from reporting database would be ...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

PAW refresh to update Webpage Widget with latest html content

Using the Webpage Widget to display html content. This is convenient to generate custom html to display within PAW. But the refresh button within PAW does not update the webpage widget with the latest html content. (Have to force clear browser ...
12 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Application connections storm slow downs the DB response

I've been assisting with an ecommerce site. During typical days, let's say non-peak/low volume of orders, the DB response is always good. However, the DB response time slows down for a few seconds, notably during peak season/high amount of orders....
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Future consideration