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 639

Double-Clicking on cube should open the default view, not the first private view

We set default views in our cubes for a reason, as they are the view we want to see the majority of the times when we open the cube. The issue with Planning Analytics for Excel is that double clicking the cube is opening the first private view sav...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Databricks connector

Adding a Databricks connector to DataStage could bring several benefits. Here are a few reasons why it could be a good idea: Enhanced Data Integration: A Databricks connector would allow seamless integration between DataStage and Databricks, enabl...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Modify redirected recovery to recover FROM tablespace where you can SELECT/UNLOAD and not require RECOVERAUTH.

The relatively new Db2 utility enhancement of redirected recovery is very useful When recovering a target tablespace from another tablespace one must essentially have database RECOVERAUTH on the source tablespace and the target tablespace. (please...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Functionality already exists

Option to get a warning if strings are truncated during an insert

There should be an option to get a warning if strings are truncated during an insert. Especially this warning is needed when a string is inserted using the functionality of encyption. If the encrypted string is truncated during insertion, the reco...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Functionality already exists

Request to add more stages in DFD Palette

We'd like to request for additional stages, "DRS connector" and "Checksum" stages in the web-based DFD (Data Flow Designer). Currently our ETLs are using those stages and not available in the DFD interfaces. It's not urgent but in near future if w...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Dimension Editor - Set Member order

Need to be able to set element order or re-order/change order of members! Please add ASAP!
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 7 Functionality already exists

Set Editor: Undo/Reset Search Filters to Available/Current Set State

Currently there is not an obvious method to undo reset an attribute filter/search back to the current set definition once a search is made, would be good to have a quick mechanism to remove the attribute or text search as it's shown in the availab...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Allow non Admin users to Publish to PAw

I have a report writing team that is creating and updating reports for PAw that are PAx based. They are not Admins, so they have to get an Admin to publish for them when they want to update a report. This is slowing things down. We need the abilit...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Partial PBG REORG for added Partitions due to previous PART LEVEL REORGs

When I run a PART LEVEL REORG of a PBG tablespace and the current data doesn't fit into its original partition DB2 adds a new partition at the end and uses it for the "overflow" data. Which is fine, btw.... If i do this for multiple partitions, se...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Always show properties pane

In Cognos 10 and prior, when opening a report in edit mode -- you always had the properties pane available and didn't have to do anything - it was just there. In Cognos 11, when opening a report in edit mode -- if you want to change a property (sa...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists