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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

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  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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New packages button, would significantly improve our users experience

We have a packages folder containing all our packages that our users use. To get to it when creating a new report/dashboard, they have to scroll down all the team folders that we have which is slow and frustrating.It would make perfect sense in th...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Scheduled Job Step Report Location

When clicking on a scheduled job > properties, you get to the job steps. You can edit the prompts and schedule information here. In the classic view, you could also see the URL for the report that was being scheduled, in the new view you can no...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to execute more than one ALTER TABLESPACE statement at a time on Statement Execution Prompt screen

If we want to alter a series of tablespaces in a database, for example to move them to another bufferpool, change the Close Rule, compress them, or set them to LOGGED/NOT LOGGED, in Db2 Administration Tool we have to set up and execute the ALTER T...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

PAW Upgrade - automate PAW Content upgrade

Each time PAW is upgraded, the content is not upgraded and there is no automated way for a PAW administrator to do it. This seems strange forcing someone to open and save the object to have it upgraded. In some cases, users aren’t allowed to save ...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Online index rebuild

We need command tool in Informix >>-ALTER INDEX--index--REBUILD------------>< | | '-ONLINE-' working like: REBUILD INDEX online utility in DB2 or ALTER INDEX index REBUILD ONLINE in Oracle or REINDEX [INDEX|TABLE] in PostgreSQL
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

TDF should support SSL/TLS LDAP. (Also known as LDAPS.)

Case: TS014229415 Opened September 2023. Closed as a future requirement (working as designed).
12 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Fabrication 0 Future consideration

Unable to Correlate CDC ephemeral ports with specific subscriptions

We have many CDC subscriptions. When a specific subscription is experiencing latency issues, we would like to perform a packet/sniffer trace on the TCP connection but there is no way to correlate CDC ephemeral ports with specific subscription. We ...
12 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Ability to show item labels for tree map visualization.

To create consistency between visualization chart properties it would make sense to include the same options in a tree map (similar to a pie/bar chart properties) i.e. to include the ability to toggle on and off show value labels. In addition, it ...
12 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Acceleration of queries that have masked columns referenced in the outermost SELECT

If a column is masked and referenced in the SELECT clause, the queries is no longer a candidate for acceleration. " Outermost SELECT statement must not reference masked columns" https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/daafz/7.5?topic=accelerator-supported-que...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Show data type for data item in GUI

There are differences between 1) drag&drop a dataitem to the canvas in design mode in reporting or drag&drop a data item to the query in query editor and 2) manually create calculated data item in the query editor. In the first case the da...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration