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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,


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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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HostFactory returns hosts with pre-start service

Currently, hostfactory does not calculate with pre-started service. but can not return the hosts with pre-started services. This causes the huge waste. Our user case for an app 4 scheduled hosts up 24x7 with 40 pre-start services to meet our short...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Delivered

Export CSV file using naming convention per Artifact Types

Export CSV file using naming convention per Artifact Types . Currently all files get downloaded with name of Category "<category name>-csv-export.csv". The file should reflect the type of Artifact downloaded.
almost 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Controller Web Journal entry search bar

We have hundreds of journal entries and it is cumbersome to scroll down to the bottom to find the journal we need to update in Controller Web. It would be helpful to have a search bar within the Controller web journal entry screen so we could sear...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Delivered

Reusable Gantt chart for Python models

Provide interactive Gantt that can easily connect to a Python CPLEX model, without writing code for the Gantt. (see e.g. how SPSS Modeler provides reusable and configurable visuals inside their new UI, we are looking for a similar experience, i.e....

WKC Cloud: Support of RDS for Oracle

There is no icon of RDS for Oracle on connection page. There are many RDS for Oracle user, they need to connect to RDS for Oracle in order to manage data governance.
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

Kill the pointless vertical scrollbar in Cube viewer

There is a vertical scrollbar in cube viewer that doesn't actually scroll. The concept of a scrollbar that doesn't scroll makes me say "Huh, huh, huh" and further diminishes PA usability.
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Google Big Query support for dynamic cubes

We use dynamic cubes running against Vertica database. There is an enterprise initiative to replace Vertica with Google Big Query in cloud. This means our dynamic cubes must be able to run efficiently against Big Query. We have already converted o...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Greenplum connector in DataStage: CSV ipv TEXT bij external tables

When in a field (varchar/text) of the source query (postgres) a carriage return exists then we can not use the Greenplum connector of Datastage.
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 7 Delivered

Encryption for Informix backup.

Informix 12.10 fc8 has file level encryption available in the database. However, from my understanding if you do a backup, this file in not encrypted. Can we have a method to perform a databack that keeps the encryption in the backup data.
almost 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Add the feature for user behavior monitoring and statistics

From customers' feedback, it is expected to have a feature to understand the functions users using for operation and performance management. Therefore, a user behavior tracking function and statistics, like Google Analytics, will be helpful.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Delivered