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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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DB2 message showing a trace was started

Today we have situations where people authorized to start DB2 traces sometimes issue START TRACE commands with little qualifications with lead to traces being collected for lots of DB2 threads which ends having impact on general performance of the...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow INSERT to write to external tables

Currently one can only write to an external table by selecting from an existing table. There are many uses for writing to an external table that do not involved writing only the results of a SELECT query. Combined with RFE INFX-I-61, Appendable Ex...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Option to rename column headers in Dashboard object table

We use a table to display a Top 5 list based on a count on a date field. We would like to rename the column header "Date of Login (Timestamp)" to somethin more meaningful, as this column contains a count value. This is not possible.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Users can like reports, dashboards

Users can like reports, dashboards and send feedback to specific object.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support Silent Switch Installations for DVM Studio, JDBC Drivers and ODBC Drivers

At our site users do not have the option to download and install software on their work computers unless that software has been approved and made available from an internal central software download site. Users do not have administrative rights an...
almost 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Allow the transfer/ copy of private views to different users

Public views become too crowded if are used by different departments in the same company. It is relevant and helpful to have a list of department/ standard views available for all interested users. In order to be able to have this list in an effic...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Applications and Plans: Subtasks

Currently there is only the option to create a task and not subtasks. There is a need for a task to have subtasks, as well as the subtasks to be assigned to different contributors / approvers then the parent task.
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

See my uploaded files and my amount of uploaded data

When exporting from onprem and importing to the cloud I, as an administrator, own all objects. After a few days I wanted to reload a small excel file but could not load because I had exceeded the limit of 500MB per user. I can not see which upload...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 1 Future consideration

Add filters by Click on Graph like CA Dashboard

We need a filter functionality like we have in CA dashboard. by clicking on the bar chart any of the data bar the other graphs in the PAW tab get filtered.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

OpenPages UI Tooltip to show field-specific info when mouse hover over a field in an object view

Customer requested this feature. End users would like to see additional info explaining the current field they are about to fill out in an OpenPages object record. End users would to mouse hover over a field and get hints and additional details to...
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Functionality already exists