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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:


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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

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  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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Report search should only be returning items that the user has permissions to see

Search in portal enviroment does not take into account user's permissions and returns all reports matching in name.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DataStage : Trino connector

We need a connector for Trino in InfoSphere Datastage as Trino is not supported officially by IBM. PMR No : TS016068863
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Create a new BiF to do a real TIMESTAMPDIFF

The current scalar function TIMESTAMPDIFF is great if the difference is not over one month, then it starts guessing at how many days are involved. If you want to know the number of seconds between two timestamps it gives variously bad degrees of e...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Create options to disable hierarchy feature

Right now in PA, hierarchy option is enabled by default whether you want to use it or not. We want to have a way to enable/disable it through config parameter, so that people can use it rightly. Please make this option as false by default and peop...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Full EXPLAIN support for all types of trigger

With Triggers you cannot use the REBIND option OWNER on a rebind. Why not? Not even for EXPLAIN(ONLY). We must get the ability, like with "normal" packages, to EXPLAIN into another set of EXPLAIN tables. Further, if you are using Advanced Triggers...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Remove Group Based Access Limitation

Description of Limitation: IBM has defined a few limitations with role based access which include the following: A role cannot own database objects. Permissions and roles granted to groups are not considered when you create the following database ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Security 2 Future consideration

Refactoring Assistant: Automatically link to newly refactored code

The refactoring Assistant slice the monolith cobol into micro services. But then, you have a phase where you must adapt both cobol (the monolith, to make a "call" to the Refactored Cobol ans the refactored Cobol where you need to have a linkage se...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Applications and Plans: Ability to assign individual users to a Task

Currently PAW Plans and Applications only have the option to assign security groups as Contributors and Approvers, whereas we have the need to have the option to also assign individual users in the same way that individual users can be assigned to...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Change scale of Planning Analytics Workspace Websheets

Issue When adding a websheet to a PAW book, there is often a scroll bar on the websheet widget if it is bigger than the book canvas. A websheet can sometimes appear more zoomed in on PAW than Excel so it is often easier to consume the content in P...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Under review

Use or mimic Global Parameters to work on Dashboards to set Filters by user

Currently we have a Dashboard with a BranchOffice Filter. The users do not have save/updated capability on Dashboards. We don't want a free for all of changing and saving the dashboards. If that was the case, then every user would have to go thru ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release