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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


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


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System Administrator should have the ability to renew credentials on behalf of any other user

System Administrators current have no ability to renew other users credentials on their behalf. This is very inconvenient as it would otherwise be necessary to always know users' credentials prior to renewing them.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IGI Service Center - Request approvation in external panel

Hi, is it possible to have request details and accept/refuse it in the IGI Service Center approval panel, without the mandatory step of access in every single request in order to check the details? It would improve the user experience.
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Allow setting of environment variable (e.g. PSORT_DBTEMP) in AUS.

Sometimes tables are too big that the allocated temporary dbspaces are not enough and AUS fails updating statistics in high mode. The temporary dbspaces are sufficient under normal use so adding more space to temporary dspaces is not ideal.
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Explain product names in installer

When installing, a name like CONSV o RTCL are not clear for people entering into the world of Db2. These names should be explained in from of them, like CONSV - Db2 Connect for zOS o i RTLN - Data server runtime client
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Report Validation error on crosstab in listcontainer with busting

Report Validation error on crosstab in listcontainer with busting Case TS001478300
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Execute Tabs Independently For JavaScript

We have a Cognos report with 4 pages, set to Run with full interactivity = No and View pages as tabs = Top Left. On each page/tab, we have an HTML Item that includes JavaScript code for formatting specific to that page. Our expectation was that on...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Record A Shrlevel Change Image Copy As Shrlevel Reference When Possible

Shrlevel change image copies that are older than the available Db2 logs can not reliable be used for recovery because there may have been inflight URs at the time of the copy that got backed out after the copy finished. To recover to current, Db2 ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Action Button with jump back functions

I can jump with Action Button command from one Page to other page, even in another book. We need the possibility to know for the user, from which book/page he came, that he can jump back. That is very important to create slim and fast applications...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Welcome Page for new user

a) Welcome page only for new users, first time in the system. b) Welcome page can be defined for each user group. c) Possibility to run processes or chores for new user to set up his environment.
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Action Button with jump back function

I can jump with Action Button command from one Page to other page, even in another book. We need the possibility to know for the user, from which book/page he came, that he can jump back. That is very important to create slim and fast applications...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration