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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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Add SQL-statement COMMENT ON as in Oracle or PostgreSQL

For some tables or columns it would be helpful to describe what the table/column is used for since the names are not always self-explanatory. Although COMMENT ON is not part of standard SQL it would be helpful to have such a statement. The DOCUMEN...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 6 Future consideration

SAS code to python code

There are opportunities where customers are exploring converting SAS code to Python code.
8 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 2 Needs more information

Synchronize by Book and Sheet

We have a need to be able to synchronize widgets by both book and sheet on the same page. For example, we have one page which shows inventory details (product name, on-hand quantities, on-order quantities, etc.) for a particular customer but would...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Allow workflow Validation to be run as system Admin like Operations

This is useful in cases where we have validation place on parent and children's object but logic user do not have accedd to them.
5 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

Impossibility to close the previously opened session in the Administrative Console

The client claims that if they go outside the Administrative console without logout, to log in again, they have to wait for the logout timeout because the system does not allow them to close the previous session.
5 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Is a defect

Quick Search should trigger a data refresh

Please refer to case TS014307927 for details. Quick Search on all DMC views does not enforces a new query to either the repository or to the monitored DB. It only searches on pre-loaded data in the browser , which is not a complete set of data. Fo...
10 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Select color coding

Need the ability to set colors for specific data items consistently from tile to tile.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

A way to see who is logged in to PAW

If you have planned a PAW downtime for maintenance and you want to check if there are still users logged in, you have no way to do so. You can check the threads of a database, but this is not feasible when you have multiple databases. Regarding "c...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Capability to remap a Data items in a data module

Current problem: No easy way to remap data items of a table with re-named items or new items with the same logic. If a table item changes name or your DB developer changes the Capital or other settings there is no easy way to relink the Data ITEM ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Workflow Comments at Activity Tab

the comments exchanged between the creator and approver via workflow are only visible through the field and are not reflected in the activity tab. Please ensure that these comments are also added to the activity tab for better visibility.
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review