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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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API to write dictionary to log

A number of our common customers run DB2 utilities from third party vendors and IBM replication solutions. They are requesting that our LOAD and REORG utilities write the old dictionary pages to the log for later retrieval by a replication product...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Filter option for cubes

When developing TI processes, it often happens that I only need a few cubes from the list of all cubes. It would be a great feature if I could not only search for a single cube in the workbench, but also set a filter on them. This would allow you ...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Selective decompression of zipped filed

Currently when decompressing/unzipping the zip files in Drive explorer it is not possible to select files to unzip: the whole archive is decompressed. It would be useful to have the option of unzipping a selection of files from the archive.
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Advanced Drill Behaviour in Full Interactivity Mode

Advanced drill behaviour is disabled for fully interactive mode because of which,unable to assign level labels and users are getting confused about the level on which they are presentUnable to drill down on data points in chart
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Hide selected visualization types from end users in PAW

Provides users with filtered lists of visualizations based on those most frequently used and those deemed to work best with underlying data sets. Removes end user confusion when shown too many options. Add visualization selection options in Custom...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Seamless dashboard display across devices of different sizes

Client is expecting to access dashboard through PC, laptops, smartphones and tablets using browser version (not Cognos mobile apps), and require the designed dashboard to look seamless across the devices. However, there is no one setting in dashbo...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Externalize non-DSC SQL in IFCID 316

An old request that got rejected but is for me, and at least 52 other voters, important was the IFI 316 for non-DSC eligible Dynamic SQLs. The business case here has two major reasons: First and most important these days – Audit. Any Dynamic SQL m...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Disable/Enable a Process within a Chore without removing it

It is time consuming when you want to not have a process run in a chore temporarily, to first go in and remove it from the chore, then secondly return later and lookup up the process from a long list of processes to reinstate it and then lastly mo...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Translate Cobol to Java on IBM i

Clients want to modernize their legacy and monolithic applications built years ago using db2 with Cobol on IBM i. They want to innovate, have a scalable solution, reduce operational risks and HR risks (not rely on deep expertise in cobol resources...
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Not under consideration

Backup Individual database, not entire instance

Need a mechanism, similar to ontape, to backup a live database (as opposed to entire instance), without locking it.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration