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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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Differentiate hierarchy levels in Widget Selector

Add functionality to see different levels of the hierarchy in the widget selector, by size of font, or bold font, or potentially indenting (which may have its own issues depending on the number of levels).
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Allow partial indexes in all editions

IDS 14.10 contains this important new feature: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G_14.1.0/com.ibm.sqls.doc/ids_sqs_partial_index.htm "Partial indexes avoid indexing common values. As the query searching for a common value wil...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Filtering navigational tree in PAW

Filtering navigational tree in PAW would help users in quicker menu navigation - they could find the desired objects without cumbersome browsing the whole tree. User experience would benefit a lot with this solution
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Guage Chart with single value and capability to custom color it

Need guage chart with single color so we can color it based on a metric % and the color palette can be custom as well. Many of our customers are demanding that for reports and dashboards.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Allow for more then one Custom Folder for a given Role

11.0.6 brings new feature in the form of Custom Folders that allow for buttons to folders to be placed in the left hand pane of the Glass Interface. You are unfortunately restricted to just a single Custom Button per role.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Automatically tag imported assets

Automatically assign a user pre-defined tag to all imported assets of a Metadata Import job. Example: when importing a physical data model for different databases, an auto-tag in metadata import job would help identify the assets imported (if it r...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 5 Delivered

PAW - Format Row/Column by attribute

(See attached documents for detailed screenshots) Idea Details: Use a real-life scenario to explain the problem statement/pain points, PAW have wonderful self-service capabilities. However, when building a dashboard to present data, there’s very f...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Delivered

Option to dictate behaviour regarding deadlock victim selected on deadlocks involving DDL ALTERs

In true 24*7 production environments there is an increasing expectation that simple(on the face of it) DDL changes should be able to break-in concurrent with application workload. In the case of high-arrival rate transactions even at the quietest ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Shortcut to Add indent within a line

In Architect/Perspectives when authoring a rule or process we could perform an indent, not just on the whole line but within a line using ctrl+i Such as the below... Between nContainSubmission = 1; and EndIF; it is filled by not spaces but a tab. ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

BIND Package command to support mixed case names

DB2 for z/OS does not support the mixed case package names on the COPY or DEPLOY options of the Bind Package command. If I submit the same job with the package name enclosed in double quotes, I get this:BIND PACKAGE(UPPERCOLL1) QUAL(TS5781) OWNER(...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered