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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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Start Excel exclusively with Perspectives or PAx

You told me that it is not possible to have 2 shortcuts on the same computer with these characteristics: 1) starting Excel with Perspectives and without PAx 2) starting Excel with PAx and without Perspectives Only user interventions in Excel/optio...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Company notification

Hello, My organization has enabled a notification beneath the green bar on preproduction in Cognos (preproduction will be down on a certain date). This notification appears every time a session is started. I start a lot of sessions during during m...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Excel based import in workflow doesn’t indicate the fields which are mandatory, editable, viewable at step level.

Workflow excel based import doesn’t indicate the fields which are mandatory/required at step level, what are editable for user and what are viewable. It would be good if there can be a color coding for the user to know upfront at export that what ...
over 1 year ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Support for columns with names longer than 30 characters

DVM currently fails when attempting to create virtual tables over source tables with column names longer than 30 characters. DBMS's including Postgres, Oracle and DB2 LUW allow for longer column names.
about 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 with Db2 11.1

Our Linux team has already moved all our Linux platforms, with the exception of Db2 platforms, from SLES version 12 to 15. As there is no actual Db2 version that supports SLES 15, the concerned platforms cannot be upgraded.
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Unable to convert the crosstab reports to charts

We are unable to Convert the existing Crosstab report to any Chart using Change Chart Type option/Change Visualization option from Demand tool bar as we are unable to view the charts under Demand tool bar's Change Chart Type/Change Visualization i...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

BDFS to File Connector migration support

Hi,We are currently using HDP 2.6.2 from DataStage 11.5.0.2 and using BDFS stage. Since Connector Migration Tool does not support the BDFS to File Connector conversion, therefore we would like to see if IBM has a solution. Thanks
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

SAP S/4 HANA compactibiltiy with IBM IIS suite (v11.5)

SAP S/4 HANA Compatibility for all of Information Server suite – ie DataStage, IA,IMAM ,IGC (all Metadata components as well)
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace - "Read Only" Option for Ops Console Dashboard

We have a group of power users that support our application. Sometimes it would be useful for them to know who is logged into the system and what is currently happening. This is because users sometimes send them questions related to the status of ...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Decoupling the enable bulk import option in workflow step with Allow Import into Step checkbox.

As per the current functionality, bulk import option in the workflow step is enabled only when we select Allow Import into Step checkbox which is available at workflow step level. When this particular checkbox is selected it is enabling '+' button...
over 1 year ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration