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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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Invalid maximum timestamp value availble in DB2

Currently there is documented maximum timestamp value available in DB2 as '9999-12-31-24.00.00.000000'. However, using this value can lead to various problems which are recognized by DB2 development already as during introduction of temporal table...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Drill down with navigation path

Navigations Paths cannot be used like real "drill down" in report studio
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

"Modification date and time" changes every time a report is just run and not saved

In Cognos 11.0.7 Environments , the "Modification date and time" changes every time a report is just run and not saved. Ideally the date and time should change only after some modifications to the report are done and save button is clicked
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

RI support for tables with mixed encoding schemes

MR012908405 GGDB208012 GGDB207014
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Load offline base maps to Cognos

Load offline base map to Cognos
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

A clean Environments selector list for IBM cloud environments

Hello, Every single day I need to select multiple environments from the IBM PA Home page (https://www.planning-analytics.ibmcloud.com/). My list is such that there are almost 20 environments, and it will only grow. In a support ticket (TS014673742...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

REPORT RECOVERY - new syntax requested to externalise just the image copy and log datasets

REPORT RECOVERY provides the CURRENT and SUMMARY keywords but even for these options the job output is either very verbose (Unit of Recovery, SYSCOPY entries, Archive log datasets, volume numbers for the LOG datasets etc) or too little (just the v...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

DSM Explain profile

Hello, Our idea is to use DSM so that users, authenticated in DSM with administrator profile, can do EXPLAIN without the need to have DB2 z/OS operation user credentials, as in the case of Data Collection Credentials. We have a generic user crea...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Datasets - size restriction and size monitoring

Administrators should be able to set a limit for the size of a data set. Administrator should be able to monitor the sizes of Data sets.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Enable additional functionality for bursting: email subject/file name based on burst parameters

Right now, to do this functionality relies on using the Event Studio plus cumbersome configuration to get it to work. Having this available as part of the bursting or scheduling configuration would allow for easy setup and more customization out o...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration