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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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Operator role at the project level

In traditional Datastage (Information Server), it's possible to assign users and/or groups the Operator (or SuperOperator) role where the user cannot modify the project but can run jobs. A similar role doesn't seem to be possible in Datastage Next...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Allow Better Aggregation Stage options such as the same column with multiple aggs or count option within the calculation option.

We have a need to do multiple aggregations on the same column for a grouping. 1. Sum it, 2. Count rows. You cannot use the same column twice, and count is not even an option within the calculation section, it is a separate option and exclusive.
26 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Indexable external tables

Create a new class of external table that can be indexed and accessed via index(es).
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Enhance Data Tables to add Dynamic Sort functionality

In other Business Analytics applications, their Table/List function set includes the ability for the user to click column headings to change the sort of the data. Data Tables doesn't have this available, which leaves it falling short to the compet...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Implement ability to force terminate PAfE executions on TM1 Server

In certain situations, we have observed that PAfE executions cannot be cancelled through TM1Top or through the CancelOperation method within REST API. These threads subsequently block dimension updates (READ locks prevent all other WRITE actions, ...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Add Official Support for Red Panda / Kafka for CDC Replication

Please review the Red Panda distribution for Kafka for approval. We have been assured that Red Panda follows the Apache Kafka protocol used by CDC Replication. We would like to have Red Panda added to the supported distributions for Kafka. Thank you.
about 2 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Breakdown of Estimated performance gain percent value for each Recommended Indexes (Used in Plan = "Y") in WhatIf Analysis

As per attached screenshot, there are 4 recommended indexes together provide 42.62% of Estimated Performance again if they are created. Its not possible to pick any one or two indexes instead of all the four indexes. If 1 of the 4 recommended inde...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

DB2 Support for Business Partners

Suggest allowing access to DB2 Support for IBM Business Partners companies who do not have a valid support contract, nor may have a valid DB2 licence at all, but despite all that devote their (working) lives preaching, selling and supporting DB2 f...
2 months ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Submitted

Customizable transliteration rules

Hi, I would like to ask for an interface/configuration to change/add IBM transliterator's transliteration rules. The need: We are repeatedly receiving minor customization requests from our clients for the IBM transliteration rules for different la...
18 days ago in Global Name Management (GNM) 1 Submitted

Less Idea Focus - More Customer Focus

I want to officially complaint about the abuse of the Ideas concept within IBM and more specifically, for Cognos Analytics. While we Business Partners and our Customers are fighting every day to keep Cognos Analytics win battles versus competitors...
18 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted