Skip to Main Content
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


ADD A NEW IDEA

All ideas

Showing 2129

Add SASL Support for Kafka Interface

Currently Kafka Supports only SSL, We have a requirement for Kafka interface to support SASL for comply with banking security requirement.
over 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Future consideration

improved estimation for potential use of Huffman Compression

Requirement for more accurate estimates of DASD space savings when using Huffman Compression. Problem is that estimates produced by DSN1COMP can be significantly inaccurate i.e., as much as +/- 30%. The solution required is a new option on the REO...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Increased functionality of the "Close to" and "Not Close to" operators

When using the "close to" operators in a condition, would like the ability to specify whether or not the tolerance is only positive or only negative, in addition to the current setting which always works in both a positive and negative direction.
over 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

Dark mode for Cognos Analytics

I love the dark mode homepage for the application, however the rest of the apps are all in a light mode. Would love to have a dark mode that is easier on the eyes. The user should be able to choose dark oder light mode and the value should be save...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Future consideration

Add alternate text to images for AODO Compliance

We found Images on the following pages/services are lacking alternate texts which failed our AODA testing (WCAG Criteria 1.1.1) Add to project : Data Refinery Deployment/Test (Overview) As suggested by IBM, ref TS008471971, we would like to add th...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

Free up a job slot if lsfadmin suspends a job

We wold like to have the ability to free up a job slot when a lsfadmin suspends a job due to some valid reasons. In our case, we are trying to run a script to check if the user has reached the quota on their current run directory, and if they are ...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Future consideration

Evolved dictionary

Affected Product: Db2WoC Evolved dictionary - dictionaries evolve automatically to better quality and data be recompressed without user intervention. GEICO and some other customers like Bank of America (BofA) have been requesting this feature for ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Building better quality dictionaries while doing CTAS in Warehouse SaaS / CP4D SaaS

Product affected: Db2 Warehouse on Cloud Feature affected : CTAS is a Db2 statement - CREATE TABLE AS functionality (CTA) Overview GEICO sees very bad compression as compared to Netezza. Its been observed that currently CTAS uses only the first pa...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

PAW - wide of dimension column

Dear Mr./Mrs. We propose to enable expand dimension column so that than whole name of element is visible. Currently, the max column size is set and elements with longer name are not displayed completely. Please, see the picture Thank you Best rega...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Hope to expand the width of the menu column on the PAW screen.

Hope to expand the width of the menu column on the PAW screen. The reason is that the current "Name" menu field is so narrow that some names are obscured, making it difficult to use. I would like to widen it.
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration