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 10200

Enable Comments in Saved Output Versions

Many of our Cognos 10 users used the enable comments in saved output version feature so they can capture their commentary with their reports. We would like to have a similar ability in CA 11 to view existing saved commentary when viewing a saved o...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

New dynamically moving User Interface UI causes accidental delete

The new UI that dynamically resizes the dialog node tree, the details of the currently selected node and the search panel is very helpful. However, I ran into an issue where I was trying to click on something and just as I pushed the button, the s...
about 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

QIDCA (Quantum Integrated Distributed Computing Architecture) is a revolutionary framework that integrates quantum computing and classical distributed systems to enhance computational power, security, and efficiency in data processing and problem-solving tasks.

Why is QIDCA useful? QIDCA is useful because it leverages the unique strengths of both quantum and classical computing to tackle complex problems more efficiently than traditional methods alone. By integrating quantum computing's ability to handle...
4 months ago in Db2 / Compression 0 Not under consideration

Enable UUID as a column type, and generation of UUIDs

As we are moving towards more microservices on Z, and more interaction with cloud services, where UUIDs are much more used, we see a growing need for saving and generating UUIDs on Z. We therefore propose that UUID be made a column type in DB2. Th...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Request IDAA V7 Container code via Shop Z and SMP

Today, V7 container code for both IIAS and Z are downloaded from Fix Central. It is a different download and website than normal Stored Procedure and other Db2 related maintenance PTFs. Some customers have download issues such as download runs for...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Load Utility: Extension of field selection criterion option by AND conditions

The Db2 for z/OS LOAD utility offers a field selection criterion for the INTO TABLE option via WHEN( ... = ...). Since increasingly complex data structures are used application developers want to specify more complex conditions for selection of to...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

REBUILD INDEX utility enhancement

Enhance the REBUILD INDEX SHRLEVEL CHANGE utility to create a shadow copy of the index, then switch it over on completion.
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Support multiple skills to an Assistant

Currently Assistant supports only one skill , which in a real world scenario does not make sense. There should be provision to add multiple skills to an assistant to be achieve more scalable conversations
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

INTRA_PARALLEL should be ONLINE configurable

INTRA_PARALLEL should be ONLINE configurable DB CFG INTRA_PARALLEL is configurable, but it should not be just configurable, but ONLINE configurable.
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

INSTANCE_MEMORY AUTOMATIC should be automatic, not calculated

The default value of the INSTANCE_MEMORY parameter is AUTOMATIC. The AUTOMATIC setting results in a value that is computed at database partition activation. This behavior is inflexible regarding dynamic memory changes e.g. for AIX LPARs. Today it ...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration