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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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InfoSphere DataStage File Connector stage

I've just opened File Connector stage (version 11.3.1.2) for the first time, only to find that the Help button is disabled.
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Innovator-C Edition for Solaris SPARC

Please provide again Innovator-C Edition for Solaris SPARC 12.10.FC6IE.
almost 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Remove requirement for 2 image copies when using HPSS since bank can rely upon load files.

Actually, to move TS partition to IDAA using HPSS is required to have at least 2 image copies but we want to have option to ignore this requirement, in some cases we want just rely upon load files.
almost 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Table level restore

To enhance functionality of ontape/onbar utility to enable table level restore.
almost 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Support SAP BW 7.52 with IBM Cognos

Our version of IBM Cognos Business Intelligence is 10.2.2.5. We are currently using version of SAP BW 7.32. My company will like to advance to version SAP BW 7.5x. However I did not find this version on your Software Product Compatibility Reports....
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Compression of Primary Key Indexes with Version 10.1 FP 5

While doing some testing with, we noticed that when you create a table compressed, that ALL indexes automatically get compressed. We found out that we have the ability to specify "normal" indexes without compression, but you can not have an uncomp...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Use New Interactive Report Functionality via SDK

When embedding content into other applications via SDK, only the 10.2 functionality is available. There are none of the new features, such as sorting and filtering, that are available directly in the Cognos portal.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a "Test Derivation" option for Transformer derivations

When coding Transformer derivations it would be very nice to have (similar to "Validate Derivation") a "Test Derivation" Option that would work like a "View Data" in e.g. a Connector Stage. When using this option, DataStage would ask for the value...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Cafe - Missing Sort Option in Selection on Dimension Window

I am unable to sort elements Ascending or Descending in Cafe with a single button. I have to manually move each element to my desired view. This is very inefficient and could cause a significant productivity decrease with the end-user.
almost 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Display Control Objects in TM1 Web

Need an option to display control objects in TM1 Web.
almost 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration