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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).


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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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Refactoring Assistant to advise where good spots are to slice COBOL applications.

A developer could be advised by the refactoring assistant what are good points to slice a COBOL program so that they safe a lot of time in analyzing the COBOL code. This will allow the developer to increase the number of modules/programs they can ...
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Add a 'Created by' and 'Modified by' to PAW books in a 'Properties' menu

Hi! We manage an environment that has thousands of users and multiple developers (both internal and external). The environment is secured in a way where users have access to specific databases and no one should have access to more than one databas...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

ALTER TABLE DROP multiple COLUMNs

If you want do delete multiple columns of a table using "ALTER TABLE tbname DROP COLUMN colname", you currently have to execute many ALTER TABLE statements. The execution time increases exponentially with the number of columns to be deleted. If th...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Indicate whether the fallback SPE for Db2 13 migration is installed

As a user planning to migrate to Db2 13 I already activated V12R1M510 on my Db2 12 subsystem. However, I also want to make sure that I have the fallback SPE PH37108 https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/PH37108 installed. Could this information b...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Planned for future release

Date and User selector type Question in Questionnaire

It would be better to have the Date and User single and multi-select as question type in Questionnaire
7 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review
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Option to Run Schedule Once

We were excited to see the My Schedules and Subscriptions menu added to Cognos Analytics 11.0.8, but found there was one option we previously had (and still have in the administration view) is to run a schedule once. Our users who heavily utilize ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Integrated Pacemaker Monitoring & Alerting Functionality

IBM recently integrated the Pacemaker cluster manager in Db2 but the feature has no documented monitoring or alerting capabilities exhibiting best practices. Enlighten customers with Best Practice/Configuration documentation on how to setup the mo...
8 months ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Localization support for Planning Analytics Workspace content

To translate cube, dimension and element names in Planning Analytics, it is possible to use the captions and language locale codes. For example, in PAW, the web interface and cube, dimension and element names are then displayed in the selected bro...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Provide logging/metrics for service level usage of watsonx.ai SaaS

Question from a partner about service level usage logging for watsonx.ai SaaS. Is there a good option to see detailed usage? e.g. number of API endpoint requests over time, histogram of input tokens per request, or grouped by token size, to analyz...
22 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Add TAQ comparison to Compressed Name Controls

Due to our inability to control the completeness of the names provided by external financial institutions, it is likely that name tampering—whether intentional or unintentional—by these institutions may prevent us from accurately assessing the lis...
22 days ago in Global Name Management (GNM) 0 Submitted