Skip to Main Content
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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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


ADD A NEW IDEA

All ideas

Showing 15470

Enable the setting of stage parameter defaults on project or server level

It would be nice, if it would be possible to set the default values of stage Parameters on project or server level. Some stage parameter defaults like SORT Stage: Stable sort=TRUE or AGGREGATOR Stage:Method=Hash are rarely used and in most...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Insert Subtotals in PAW like in Pivot Table

It would be very helpful if we can create a subtotal in PAW when we have multiple row dimensions. Please see attached Excel book for example. Someone mentioned about this idea in 2018 (see post "Show sub totals in PAX and PAW similar to Pivot tabl...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Log out screen for SSO implementation

IBM OpenPages ver. 9.0.0. has default session log out page with available User ID and Password fields (see picture no 1). This is ok however for implementations using SSO standard security requirement forbid such setting as a potential vulnerabili...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Regarding modification of dbos.log output when SPU hangs

We have confirmed that the following message is output to dbos.log when the DB service becomes unavailable due to SPU hang-up. *dbos.log Info: _forward_spu_util. Unable to send to dispatch: SPU_MSG_UTILIZATION msg Since this issue has a sig...
about 1 year ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

Intelligent Online Reorg Switch time calculation

In a 24 hour online Db2 environment it can be difficult to complete an online REORG because the VSAM switch phase may fail, due to the activity on the tablespace being too high. The idea is to use the system monitors or a log analyzer tool to look...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Should be able to schedule package enrichment

You can enrich a reporting package in 2 ways: automatic vs manual enrichment. The problem is that the steps to enrich a package (using either of the above selections) have to be executed manually. Someone needs to login, navigate to the package, m...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Switch integrated natural Language Classifier by user locale

Hi team, We are implementing demo environment in English and Japanese. To support both English and Japanese, we have to post the same sentence to English and Japanese classifier model. It would be great if we could switch calling model by locale. ...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Websheets in PAW should Update other PAW objects on data change/refresh

Currently PAW objects will refresh on data change. However websheet objects do not cause other objects to refresh. IE entering data in a websheet widget won't cause a chart or grid widget on the page to update even if a recalculate is performed. T...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DSNADSM for DB2 V11 does not gather information about SYSIBM.SYSSTATFEEDBACK

DSNADSM for DB2 V11 does not gather information about SYSIBM.SYSSTATFEEDBACK – This might lead to incomplete Runstats recommandations when reporting an access path problems via an SQL, as the DSN_STAT_FEEDBACK from the explain tables might not c...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

To add an SFTP configuration so that we can push output files on different shared folders

Mainly we need to push the result sheet for any COGNOS report on separate folder for each user not only one shared path . As of now and as you suggested the folder configuration is being done on server level and all the reports will use the same f...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration