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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,


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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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Add a snapshot of a report output to an existing email or Slack message stream

Provide an option that would take a snapshot of a report output (with markups) and copy it to the clipboard. This would facilitate augmenting an existing message exchange with additional report snapshots as opposed to requiring a new share requ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

New National Language Support data type with variable size greater then 255 bytes.

The current NVARCHAR data type supports maximum of 255 bytes. In case of use UTF-8 it's not sufficient becuase it means to store about 127 UTF-8 characters.
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Console To Be Made Available On e3270

Hi... The DB2 console was of great use to our DB2 users. It WAS available in the classic OM monitor. With our recent upgrade from OM v5.3 to v5.5, we have "sunset" the classic monitor in favor of the e3270 monitor. In doing so, we were surpris...
over 4 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

PSUSP jobs need JOB_CONTROLS

Users need notifications when jobs are PSUSP due to pre-exec failures, and JOB_CONTROLS do not work because the job isn't RUN when it is suspended. We also need a tunable parameter to have these jobs killed after some amount of time.
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Custom Schematics and SVG Support in Planning Analytics

We need to expand, beyond the current PAW (v64) offering of visualisations, new customisations for our users. Therefore custom schematics using SVGs is required in PAW for us to drive customised visualisations which would work in our PA environmen...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

URL for JDBC without ending semi-colon in optional parameters

When using extra parameters for the connection in a JDBC URL, the complete URL should end with a semi-colon. However, other drivers for other RDBMS do not need the las semi-colon; actually, the semi-colon is only used for key/value separation, not...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Request to not ask business users to escape reserved characters on the FTS

Business users are often missing to add the escape characters “\\” as it is confusing for them to perform this type of search. We should have a workaround on this such as say use a double quote to search for an exact match, etc.
over 1 year ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Request to index catalog by catalog

Our customer has more than 25 million data and it is not feasible to do a full indexing every month with multiple days of downtime. Indexing by catalog helps us big time.
over 1 year ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Search for Skills in an instance or between instances

It would be very helpful to be able to search for a particular skill ID (or skill name) within (or better yet, between) instances. This feature would allow a user to search for a Skill ID and find where it's located in a instance (or where it appe...
almost 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Consistent icon usage in IBM Cognos

Inconsistent usage of old and new icons in Cognos 10.2.2 The UI of Report Studio and others have been revised. However in some scenarios the old images are still shown, which breaks the look and feel of the UI. Example:1. Open Report Studio with t...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration