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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


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


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unsecure root usage

IBM uses root account for everything which is a very unsecure way. Root should be used for emergency access to the system. All processes and everyday work should be done with dedicated accounts that have access only to what they need. The fact tha...
about 2 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

Improved documentation of how to set up and use CP4D built-in monitoring #cpfield

Documentation of how to set up monitoring is inconsistent and not sufficient. The steps are not easy to follow. It is not clear what hostnames should be used in the different steps. The url is incorrect in some steps. Docs claim that 'https://...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

PowerPlay should alert user of unsupported browser

Please enhance PowerPlay to warn users when their browser is unsupported. It would help reduce our support load greatly and reduce user frustration with PowerPlay.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Full Screen

I would be better if the the program would expand to full screen instantly when you open it.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

BigQuery Connector

In BigQuery connector in Source and Target the Test connection , View data options will be helpful to check the connection while debugging the connectivity issues.also view data will help to understand how the data look in the table instead of log...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Ability to distribute policies to specific catalogs

Today to have the capability of Policies and rules a user must purchase the Pro edition of Knowledge Catalog. What I anticipated was since I purchased Pro was, I would create a "dev" catalog, a "test" catalog and a "production" catalog. I would us...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Customer need Db2 pureScale to support RDMA on VMWare

As you know today Db2 pureScale run on VMWare only support TCP/IP for interconnect communication. VMWare claim that they support PVRDMA now. So customer need Db2 pureScale to certify and support RDMA on VMWare environment. The Sales Connect number...
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

bsub fairshare of users

Some users use a script which spawns a lot scripts, say 1000 scripts, tosubmit jobs to LSF synchronously. So a lot of jobs from this user submittedinto LSF and other users can not submit the jobs into LSF promptly with themessages of "Can not conn...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Environment management

Production and non production environment management.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

SPSS need to work with a DQM environment

There is no work around for this issue. We are getting more and more customers asking to use SPSS and we can't offer it to them as a workable solution. This definitely needs to be addressed soon. Check with Michael on history of SPSS and Cognos da...
over 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration