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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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Prevent user from creating custom environments with the same name.

Currently you can create a custom environment that has the exact same name as another. On the environment page you can differentiate between two identically named environment definitions by using the hardware configuration, language, or last modif...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future 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

View Activities & Schedules, Allow for users that do not have Scheduling capability

Company users rely on Cognos team for all scheduling, users are not allowed to schedule. However, users want to know if their report schedules are failing/succeeding, they want transparency into schedules, without the ability to modify/edit/delete...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Enable Form Based Approach

Need a form based approach for Users to quickly build the Objects using DOE and can avoid overhead of writing DDL's
over 2 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Alerting/Notification Feature

Notification has to be sent to mail id's or Groups or Team Level when a request status is updated in the stages involved
over 2 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Migrate changes from Schema to Schema

Need option to rollout similar changes to multiple schema in a single workflow
over 2 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Capability to choose the type of Utility to execute via Panel at Object Level

RUNSTATS / REORG / REBUILD / COPY are frequently used utilities and User should be able to choose which utility to execute on the Object via panel as per the requirement
over 2 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Restrict Access to Directory Search of Cognos Namespace

User chooses to run report in the background and selects email delivery option. The report author can then email a report with sensitive data to an entire Cognos namespace group like Consumers. Current work around forces us to shut off Report Sche...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Grant 'create, drop and alter a tablespace' authority to specific user

The Sysctl group can create, drop and alter a tablespace in db2 and also have all authorities of SYSMAINT and SYSMON. Customer just want to give tablespace control authority to specific user.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Add URL Shortener to KC Pages

If you try to properly source knowledge center or promote a feature within knowledge center (say via twitter or linked-in), you copy and paste a URL that is easily over 100+ characters long. If you lose the ability to cut/paste (say in the PDF of ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration