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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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Oracle Pluggable database support during installation

Cann't install InfoSphere Information Server without direct port configuration or oracle legacy adjustments(support of SID format) on container database. The internal XMETA database cann't be configured on the pluggable database. Pluggable databas...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Avoid SQL0955C Sort memory cannot be allocated to process the statement. Reason code = 3

It would avoid Db2 errors and interruptions. Every customer using Db2 BLU who ran (or will run) into SQL0955 RC3 errors would benefit.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Add slicer capability to user-defined in-memory aggrgates for Dynamic Cubes

Slicer capability exists for in-database aggregate definitions within IBM Cube Designer. The same capability for user-defined in-memory aggregates would allow for better control over fine-tuning performance.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Licenses report incorrect despite the execution of a consistency check

Issue: When we invite a user to PA, the user ends up in the PANS namespace. When the user is removed from PA, the user is still defined in Cognos namespace and is not removed. Expected Result: User is removed from PANS namespace and any entry in t...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 2 Not under consideration

Avoid SQL1246N for incremental backup

This sqlcode SQL1246N is send by DB2 during an incremental backup each time a new tablespace has been created and no full backup of this tablespace has been done. It shoud be more interesting to switch automatically for this tablespace from the in...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Share WKC Metadata by column with DataStage

(I'll post a second Idea with Watson Studio also) When Data Assets have been documented/Business Metadata has been added, like Description, Business Term and so, this is a great value for Data Engineers. They need this information to build their d...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Would like to suppress 0 on rows/columns based on a specific row/column.

Would like 0 suppression to work a at a level of one specific column/row that will alter the elements that are being displayed by that suppression. Currently if 0 suppression is on the 0's must be across the whole row/column.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Report : add custom subset to the Source Panel

Custom subset are attached to a report for reuse. Customer wants to have it available in the Source Panel and avoid to retrieve it from another report
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Replicate ASCII text output from Planning Analytics for Excel

We have just moved from TM1 10.2.2 to Planning Analytics Cloud (PA), and have 100+ users all using Planning Analytics for Excel (PA). Like most large companies, our business uses a number of BI tools and Databasing Tools. Therefore many reporting/...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

add advanced search options for namespaces when implementing data module security

When adding security based on (for example an active directory) namespace in data modules, there are no advanced search options available. In other menu's (for example when setting folder security) there are possibilities to search for a specific ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration