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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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Support KAIO in cooked files using 4k formated disk for dbspaces with page size multiple of 4

Currently, filesystem on hard disk with 4k sector size disables usage of KAIO feature. Request is to allow dbspaces with pages multiple of sector size (4k, 8k, 12k and 16k) to be able to use KAIO. For sure, dbspcaces with other page sizes should r...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Not able to add data sets to Job or Event Studio

Unlike reports/jobs, data sets do not allow to be added to jobs. So also data sets do not allow to be scheduled using Event Studio. Please provide the functionality, or an alternate option (other than time/trigger based scheduling). Case number re...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Search for function in report data item expression editor

Funtions from the Funtions tab are used very often in the report data item expression editor. But sometimes you don't know the precise name or which are available for your data source by heart. So a simple search by name (and description/Tips) wou...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Freeze panes to lock some rows and columns and allow the other to scroll

To keep an area of a worksheet visible while you scroll to another area of the worksheet (to lock specific rows and columns in place, like Excel). It would be very useful in case of large tables in order to facilitate the users in exploring the co...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Support of encrypted fields by Anonymization API

OpenPages 8.0.0.1 introduced the capability to anonymize data through a set of API methods. These methods do not work on encrypted fields, meaning that there is currently no way to anonymize data if it is stored in fields that are encrypted.When s...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 1 Not under consideration

Enhance ALTER of STOGROUP

Would like additional flexibility to change storage options without taking outages. First situation, we had a special storage group defined with a specific STORCLAS that was used to isolate a specific subset of data. That isolation is no longer ne...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Nested Folder Structures

Our Team of Content Authors, typically organise their work / responsibilities in folders. Having a nested / hierarchical folder, would all creators to also group their own work into logical blocs.
3 months ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Ability to email notifications to users

Provide external notification of report completions, via outlook (email) or other notification of choice.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Delete All Documents API

Right now if you want to delete all documents, you either need to delete the collection (which could mean code changes to point to a new ID), or you need to write a script to delete every document one by one which is time consuming.
about 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Drill through from Report to Dashboard

It would be good if we could drill through from a report to a Dashboard. If people from the business are seeing an exception, on a predefined report, that needs further analyses they should be able to pass prompts trough to a dashboard where they ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration