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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:


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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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Upgrade without outage in HDR environment

Upgrading without an outage in an HDR environment is a big deal when rolling out upgrades in the HDR environment. With the conversion from 12.10.FC4 to 12.10.FC5 we will have a failover and thats it! Thats a HUGE win for the product but I need thi...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add new STATUS codes to SYSIBM.SYSTABLESPACE to reflect different states of the tablespace

For the person who wants to identify the tablespaces that are in advisory reorg-pending status to collectively identify those tables and include them collectively in a reorganization job.
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

Approved tabs should be visible and should ensure opening approved data forms.

After upgrade to 2.0.87 and later version we can not enter into an approved data. Approved tabs dissapears and the contrubutor can not return and review already approved data. Anyone dealing with the budgeting process in an enterprise is well awar...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DANGER- Require Spreading Shortcuts to ensure Users intent - OR DATA WILL BE LOST

To perform a Proportional Spread in the older TM1 UIs (Custom Reports & Dynamic Reports) on had to lead the number with a "P" For example P1000 to proportionally spread data. In Explorations, Quick Reports and the Cube Viewer, you do not need ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Drill through to a specific tab

Our team uses IBM Cognos Report Studio to create Reports for our customer. We have created a report with three tabs. In the second tab there is a Drill-through to the same tab, the second. When the author opens the report in Report Studio and clic...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Manage Data Source Connection Schemas as limited user

To expose a schema as a data server component for Data Modules, the administrator has to modify the connection and apply the schema. When in that screen, the user could also drop the data source or connection. As an OEM provider that sets up solut...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Default text in the email body

The ability to add default text to an email body when distributing reports, similar to a signature section. Currently the same text needs to be set up for every email report and would be easier for maintenance or other messages (holidays etc) if t...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

istool import - add mapping option for FastTrack assets

We would like to add the ability to the istool command to allow for the importing of fasttrack assets using a mapping file along with the isx file.
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Improve visualization of Entity Roles, Entity Subtypes, Mention Types, and Mention Classes

When annotating a role or subtype, there is no visual cue for the Entity Role, the Entity SubType, the Mention Type, or the Mention Class. There could perhaps be colored icons appearing below the annotation to display this
about 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Granular admin permissions

BMC Software has an agreement with IBM to host multiple Customers in BMC's Watson account. BMC invites a Customer's admin user(s) who have Admin permissions on the Resource group created for the Customer. A Customer can have a Watson Assistant / W...
over 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration