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 10203

Support for spatial datatype in Cognos BI

Nowday many companies have location based data stored in the database. The location based data can be a location or area on the field. Many database vendors supports geo spatial datatype and functions like DB2, Informix, Oracle, SQL Server.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

insert into table default values

A number of database vendors offer insert into table values() or insert into tables default values;
about 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Online Constraint name renaming capability

MR0803067232 DBDB2D/S05008 Expand the ALTER-TABLE–Statement with an RENAME-Clause or add a RENAME-CONSTRAINT-Statement which renames the constraint name online.
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add JSON as new report output format

Besides HTML, Excel, Excel data, CSV, PDF and XML there should be another output format for reporting: JSON
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Column Text Rotation for Crosstabs/Lists

We would like to be able to rotate the text of a column label in crosstabs/lists. Currently, practically only 90 degrees rotation is supported (using the Direction & justification property>Writing mode). Specifically, we would like to use t...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Master-detail optimization in reports based on data modules

Currently, Master-detail optimization is the feature that has to be explicitly enabled by turning on a specific FM DQM governor and publishing the FM package. Without that feature turned on, most reports and burst reports containing master-detail ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Runstats use profile

Runstats should be able to deal always with the generated profile for the optimizer.Or, DB2 should generate only such profiles that can be successfully executed.
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve API response structure for timestamps and word_confidence within STT SpeechRecognitionAlternative model

As part of the response from making a POST to the v1/recognize endpoint in the Speech to Text service, the user receives an array of "alternatives". Within these "alternatives" objects, there are two arrays called "word_confidence" and "transcript...
over 6 years ago in Speech Services 0 Not under consideration

Index support for "expression op expression"

In our environment, we have many queries with predicate: "expression op expression". As they don't use indexes they're performing a table scan. We would like DB2 to be able to use indexes to resolve this type of predicate. Examples: SELECT [id], [...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Private view for PAW Books

User have been looking for options to save their choice of filters and preferences for PAW books. This would save unproductive time for repeatedly selecting the filters to a desired view. This is specially tedious if the filters have large sets to...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration