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 15335

Support for Linux ARM

We need a build for Linux ARM64. Preferably redhat enterprise 8. We're aiming our software for the ARM architecture and CPLEX for ARM is currently only available on OSX, but not for Linux. This is blocking us.
over 1 year ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Future consideration

Provision of remote repositories for consumption of external APIs/dependencies (.jars)

We are using the management-console-api (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/idr/11.4.0?topic=replication-management-console-api) to automate some processes that are currently running manually. We work with CI/CD mats that resolve dependencies through art...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Future consideration

LDAP Authenication for HQ

Allow the option to use LDAP for HQ Authentication. Build the user name in HQ but allow it to use domain authentication. This would also allow HQ to write backups to mapped drives. See Support Case TS007408895 for further details.
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

Masked Data Customization

Allow more customization around which users can view the values of each encrypted attribute. This is currently handled at the user account level and a user may either view all encrypted/masked values or none of them. We need additional flexibility...
about 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

Customer Default Color Palette in Dashboarding

We have created color palette specific to our organization. We can add it as default palette in reporting so user will see those colors. But you can't change default color palette in dash boarding. If you have to use organization palette, you need...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Python scripts should be minimized as short as R boilerplate statements.

can use Python 3 from extension nodes and custom node dialog builder. However, compared to R, Python has a lot of boilerplate statements. It would be nice if Python could be scripted in the same way as R, with a minimum of boilerplate statements. ...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release

An AI assistant to transform generated COBOL into readable COBOL

Transform COBOL code generated by a tool such as Pacbase or RPP into code that a COBOL developer could have written.
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

SSO (Single Sign-On) for ODBC connections via ActiveDirectory authentication

The current configuration of a SSO (Single Sign-On) authentication for a Windows workstation is based on GSSCSM, for which support will be discontinued in future Informix releases and is very complex and error-prone. Alternatively, ODBC connection...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Under review

SaaS connection errors

Why does Controller SaaS enable sessions to remain open on screen and give the appearance of SaaS connection, when in fact they are deactivated or disconnected sessions? For example, where the user ignores the “idle timer expired” prompt and Contr...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Message Type Options in “Create Template” should align with Message Domains

Create Template should align with MT and MX Domains, MX Domains should only be visible for MX queues MT Domains should only be visible for MT queues
about 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 4 Not under consideration