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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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File Manager/Drive Explorer Security

With the removal of the Rich Tier Desktop services, we are faced with securing specific databases and folders within our environment. Currently, the File Manager does not provide visibility to all folders within a database, only the Data/model_upl...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Support for Eclipse IDZ in addition to VS Code

100s of developers in my client MetLife using eclipse based IDe
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 8 Future consideration
503 VOTE

Ability to Schedule a refresh of an Uploaded File

I would like to have the ability to schedule a refresh of an uploaded file. If you store your excel or text to a file share and grant Cognos access to that share, you should have the ability to schedule a refresh of that data file.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 10 Not under consideration

Custom steps in remediation workflows

Possibility of including refinery jobs, datastage jobs, remote API (eg: create a Jira ticket..), ... or other integrations in one of the steps of the remediation flow.
24 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

The ability to create custom URLs that retrieves data from AIOps to be used in the custom cards

When creating new custom cards with a dynamic set of data you use the data_url attribute to provide the custom card with a URL that retrieves data from AIOps components (Alerts, Incedints, Resource management, etc..) and can't use external URL for...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Allow Encrypted Connection for IBM Debug Tool and Unified Debugger

Reviewing the connection with the Db2 Unified debugger, it was determined it was not using an encrypted port. All tools (mainframe or otherwise) should support full encryption over ATL-TLS.
7 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Data Collector thread consuming CPU after closing preview

Faulty code, such as an infinite loop in a Groovy Evaluator stage, will not destroy threads after closing a pipeline preview. The lingering threads will consume CPU resources until the engine is restarted. The request for this Idea is to implement...
7 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Advanced Selector Widget Synchronization Across Sheets

Issue: Advanced Selector Widgets for the same dimensions on the same book, but on different sheets that are synchronized to the book, are not showing selections made on other sheets. Despite the charts updating to reflect selections made on other ...
7 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Expire API Tokens at a set number of days

The Lockheed Martin security team would like to see a feature to set an API token expiration. Ideally users will be required to put an expiration date when generating a token. Another option we would like to have is the ability to generate a repor...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review

Ability to import AD or CAM users in PAW

We have a couple of customer PA local environments where we in Architect add new Users or Groups from Active Directory or Cognos CAM through Security -> Client Groups -> Add New Client or Add New Group. This functionality is currently not av...
7 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted