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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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CDC statistics tables or files needed for continuous monitoring

Currently CDC does not write continuous statistic out to a table or file or other. It is only possible to issue a query to get this information in a report format. But a report is not a solution for continues monitoring or getting an historical vi...
12 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

Hierarchy indentation in Picklists

Currently, TM1 picklists are only showing a flat list of elements. Users are constantly asking for a way to show the right hierarchy indentation they are used to see in a normal subset. There are cases when they want to expand/collapse members in ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Enable support for worksheet function DefineCalc in Websheets

In an enterprise Planning Analytic model, reports are often presented in PAW and in a structured way. I.e. there are timescales, approval hierarchies etc etc, formal processes. In other words, it isn't users making things up on the fly. A cornerst...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

Copy a Tab from one Workbook to another Workbook

The function is required to copy a tab from one workbook to another workbook without recreating the Tab from scratch.
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

MSK is looking for a native connector for Databricks on AWS.

We already have for Azure. We should have a native connector for AWS to avoid multi-step load/registration via S3 connector. More customers will be asking beyond MSK.
about 1 month ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

PAW - View a small text base file in Drive Explorer

This used to be easy on the rich-layer, but with PAW and Drive Explorer - can we have a viewer for small text based files that you can add to favourites like txt/html/ps1/cfg ? It can also be a widget for a paw book like a frame that points to a f...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Allow IAM access for server to S3 to work for Db2 backups

AWS allows a server or container to have an IAM role that allows access to S3 and other resources without authentication. However, cataloging a storage alias requires a key and secret key to work, regardless of whether the IAM role is set up for t...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 4 Future consideration

Applications and Plans: Plan Announcements generates an email alert per task

When an Announcement is posted in a PAW Plan, it triggers an email alert to each user assigned to each task, instead of one email to each user part of the plan. For example - In the one Plan we have, there are 30 tasks. The Capacity Planner securi...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

PAfE DIMNM performance improvement

Perspectives models are unusable in PAfE due to poor performance of DIMNM function as it is currently implemented: http://server:port/api/v1/Dimensions%28%27dimension%27%29/DefaultHierarchy/Members?$filter=Element/Index%20eq%20201 - 12.36secs My p...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Timeout Setting in Planning Analytics as a Service

Currently not an option to adjust PAW/PAfE timeout settings in Planning Analytics as a Service like there is for IBM cloud models. In IBM cloud models, you can easily adjust this setting in PAW Admin. These are the defaults: https://www.ibm.com/su...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration