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 15252
536 VOTE

Allow Custom Sorting of contents like Folders, Reports and Packages

Ability to control custom sorting of contents has been removed from v11. This is highly required item by our business community. Arranging the contents by alphabetical order is not sufficient. Not adding this feature back will be a big negative.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Time Dimension Options

Performance Modeler has a wizard for generating a time dimension. It allows you to select period levels (i.e. Year, Quarter, Month, Week and Day). When generating a days dimension, it automatically knows how many days each month should have. Creat...
19 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Greek Language to be added in the Assistant and Discovery products

We are under discussion with one of our customers about an Assistant solution that will help their technicians to work more efficient and resolve their issues faster. The documents are in Greek and English language, and this is a limitation in com...
3 months ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Increase timeout for Cognos Controller on Cloud & Excel Add-ins

Even when users are actively working on Excel for more than 60 minutes following a report refresh, the Add-ins prompt them to log out and re-login with their IBMid. This occasionally causes Excel to hang, forcing users to end the task via the Task...
8 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Planned for future release

We need to be able to detect a change to a table in the CDC origin in order to create a DDL

No description provided
5 days ago in StreamSets 1 Submitted

OpenLineage Export to Alation

We need ability to export lineage integrated onto Manta leveraging OpenLineage connector to be exported to Alation. It could be accomplished in either of the two ways: Integrate OpenLineage Export to Alation Catalog for the same source Export Open...
6 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Under review

Add custom relationship towards reference data value - now there is only custom relationship towards reference data

I want to create a custom relationship from category to reference data value. At the moment that is not possible. I can create a relationship towards the whole reference data set, but not the individual values. For a term it is possible to create ...
6 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

SET CURRENT SQLID from DVM studio

From DVM studio there is the possibility to BIND/GRANT Packages. It would be nice if there was the possibility to do a 'SET CURRENT SQLID' from the panel. We tend to give priviledges such as SYSADM not to the personal userid but to a group id, the...
6 days ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Submitted

sort process by creation date

I'm currently creating processes and collegues a mois as well, and we'd like to be able to perform other display sorting than the current alphabetical default.
6 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Process to enable TLS 1.3 on DataStage versions

Need process to enable/upgrade TLS 1.3 for DataStage 11.7.1.X versions. This will help to enable new security features and meet the audit. Product :InfoSphere Information Server: Data Integration (DataStage)