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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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ObjectStar to Java code conversion

My customer has a bunch of ObjectStar code running a key business system and wants to migrate that to Java and DB2.
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Support daylight savings for scheduled jobs

In current state operations team need to go admin console to adjust the jobs to reflect the daylight savings. We have an operational impact if the job missed certain deadline due to manual intervention.
7 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Restore of chunks of one dbspace in parallel

In a case of an onbar restore and depending on the onconfig configuration of BAR_MAX_RESTORE setting a parallel restore of dbspaces is possible. In the case that one of the dbspaces have lots of chunks, all of these chunks will be restored sequent...
7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

send email with multiple different report outputs in it

A user schedules many reports and emails the outputs. They receive an email for each report they have scheduled. The user wants a single email with all outputs. Today, this can be achieved using Event Studio. But this solution is very hard for a t...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

DMC (Data Managment console) -- Multi factor Authentication (MFA)

Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) is an authentication method that requires the user to provide two or more verification factors to gain access to a resource such as an application, online account, or a VPN. MFA is a core component of a strong ide...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Under review

Use Microsft SMTP server Office 365 TLS

I want to use our SMTP Office365 (cloud Microssoft) for sending emails from COGNOS. Microsft uses TLS. The support said me that TLS is not supported by IBM COGNOS.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Hide Attributes Prefixed with }

Hide all attributes starting with the curly bracket "}" from the Subset Editor, also making it a control object (similar to other control cubes, dimensions, processes, views, subsets).
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Fix Visualization Summaries

When hovering over the legend in a visualization, the summary item numbers are calculated COMPLETELY WRONG. For example, a line graph of the total year showing a ratio per month has all of the ratios ADDED together when hovering. This is completel...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability re-process documents without re-ingestion

Currently we need to re-ingest documents to update any enrichment. This is specifically not very practical when we have WKS model involved. If the model is refined & updated, we need to re-ingest the docs. This is very annoying for customers h...
almost 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

As cloud developer, I need small, easy to install IBM DB drivers for Node.js, Python, Go and more

When developing or working with containerized apps or even serverless technologies like FaaS (Function-as-a-Service), compact container sizes and quick and easy installation of all required components is essential. Contrast that with the big roadb...
11 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted