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 15166

Required libraries on Windows server

We need a new environment besides the existing installations of MDM Standard Edition 11.6.0.11. The following site shows the Visual C++ 2012 library is required for the installation. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/imdm/11.6?topic=deployment-installat...
10 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics encrypts the Excel report

For the existing Cognos Analytics, can export Excel report. However, it cannot be encrypted. Is there any roadmap for supporting Excel encrypted?
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Checkboxes in PAW

Hi, I miss checkboxes in PAW. Checkboxes are nothing more than boolean buttons, but can be used in a variety of ways to allow the end user to interact with the report. I often encounter the following scenarios in which I would like to see checkbox...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Needs more information

Copy&Paste of layout elements: Check if referenced query exist and ask if they should be reused

When copying lists (also crosstabs, charts, etc.) the referenced query is always created as well. If the name already exists in the target report, a number (1, 2, 3, etc.) is appended. It should be checked if the query with the corresponding name ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

DMC DB2 Authorization for depricated SNAP Views

To use all monitor functions from the DMC the user that connected to the database that will be monitored, must have a lot of grants to funktions , views and tables. That is totaly managed in the DB2 System. But additionaly some functions such as S...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Add columnar indexes to Informix.

Other databases e.g. DB2 have columnar index support builtin, we would like that in Informix as well. use case the same as for DB2.
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

The jobs were developed in Watson Studio Notebooks in Python, they did not stop working when Python moved to a new version.

When the Python Library is updated, all jobs developed in the last version stop working. If it is possible to keep the work developed in the old version working for 1 or 2 previous versions of the current one. This possibility helps to have more t...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

PAW Image link from PA Cube Cell Data

Ability to store a image URL in a PA Cube Cell, and display it as an image in PAW. Ultimately, allowing the user to reelect a synchronized drop down menu, and have the image source change, and the image change with it.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Display description with enabling line feed, or enable to write with rich text

Problem statement/pain point: In the panel for individual asset, we have description section in left side panel most upper item. Description section shows max 300 character description for the asset. In this customer use case, in order to streaml...
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Define and display tags hierarchically

Problem statement/pain point: In now Tags can be defined only non-hierarchy style.In our usecase, administrator design tags system in the enterprise such as in below.This tags system have hierarchical contents. AI_type-Question and answer, AI_ty...
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration