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 15392 of 15392

Enable dropdown when the cell is locked/sheet is protected

When user wants to make a template for submission, they will go for additional security to lock the sheets and only allow the cells to be edited. This is done by locking the cells that are not meant for editing. Currently when this is applied the ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

pureScale: Allow to configure more than one instance

Its important to allow more than one instance in Purescale architecture. In the majority of our environments we have DB2 instances segregated by business needs so in case we need some maintenance and a instance restart we have no impact for others...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

Intelligent Data Source and Credentials Replacement in Job Steps

Whenever a job step is created based on an IBM SPSS Modeler stream, the user has to specify the resources to use for the ODBC DSN and Credentials for each ODBC data source/export node in the underlying stream.Each selection requires a minimum of 6...
almost 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

Add Google spanner support as a Data Source

Request is to add support for Google Cloud Spanner as a fully supported data source. I noticed that Tableau and Looker supports it now. Also, we saw that Simba drivers provided Mysql dialect to connect to Cloud Spanner, so it may be easy as it is ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Historical rates in a new consolidation type.

When you define a new Consolidation type it´s always very tricky to get the right opening balances on Etyp 1 transactions. It would be so much easier if Controller could get the closing balance amounts from a selected consolidation type when you ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Add Two or More of Same Table to Data Module

There are times when we need to add the same table more than once to a Data Module. For instance, we might have a fact table with order date and ship date. This would need two date dimensions to join on each date.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Currently Job Priority Over Time Impacts all Queue and all Jobs - Instead optionally make it affect only Queues and Jobs that are APS Queues

The Job Priority Over Time is an excellent feature that is designed to be paired with APS dispatch rules. However, some users have setup soft dispatch or dispatch preferences in the normal queue which is not APS enabled that classify jobs by their...
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Show changes to Manage -> Configuration -> System -> Advanced Settings -> Custom Settings

Changes which have been made to Manage -> Configuration -> System ->Advanced Settings -> Custom Settings by an Admin should be shown. Right now there is no way to find out which custom changes have been made. An APAR (https://www.ibm.c...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Ability to use the timezone set in the User Preferences

The functions AsOfTime() and AsOfDate() should take into account the time zone specified in "My preferences".The user has the possibility to define its time zone, so *any* date function should take this into consideration with an option to take cu...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Manage Default Action for Reports

Currently, all newly-created reports have the Default Portal Action of "View most recent report." This can be changed for an individual report by going into its Properties > Report > Advanced, but there is currently no mechanism to globally ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration