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 15913 of 15913

Log Report to enhance for import from staging table

Enhance Log Report to show information e.g. company code in the Data File box for import from staging table. In the current version this box is empty.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Materialized Query tables in DB2 z/OS with refresh immediate option

MQT's - Materialized Query tables - are a well known feature in all advanced relational database systems. The DB2 family has this feature since more than 10 years. If you look at this functionality in DB2 LUW and DB2 z/OS the MQT functionality loo...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 7 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace - Ability to change paper format and orientation for PDF report

PAW should allow end users to control the paper format and orientation of PDF reports. In CA there is an option for end users to choose the paper size and the orientation of the PDF output. IBM should modify PAW to have a similar function.
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Ability to query catalog tables and administrative views in stand by

There is an option called Read On Standby (ROS) that allows to connect and perform selects on the standby role of a HADR cluster. However, this is focussed to business tables. I propose the capability to perform selects on the standby but just on ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Report retains report options from session to session

Report options - Automatic group and summary behavior for lists remaining off, but the Delete unreferenced query objects and Enable guided report layout get turned back on after closing session. Visual Aids - Show Hidden Objects turns off after ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Smart Document Understanding to produce a readable PDF from original scanned PDF

In solutions where text archives are digitized to become searchable in Watson Discovery, Smart Document Understanding is a promising new feature. However, it does not by side effect produce a searchable (text-based) PDF when OCRing a scanned PDF. ...
about 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

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...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Context based slicing for given variable for both include and working storage  and bulk slicing for these.

This is a functionality already in consideration by product management for Refactoring Assistant.
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Need DB2 LUW to support NUMA processor technology on Windows

The NUMA processor group technology is currently not supported by DB2 v10.5 and up for Windows. I would like IBM to add support for this feature in DB2 v10.5 and up as soon as possible in order to take full advantage of my server. (Currently runni...
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Data driven text visualization

On dashboards there is often a need to annotate or comment on the data being displayed. For example, I may wish to indicate in a comment what percentage of my employees meet a certain criteria. This could be accomplished with a hard-coded string i...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration