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


Status Not under consideration
Workspace Planning Analytics
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 23, 2022

Switch DNS server for ALL Quick /Exploration reports to backup if prod fails

Assuming I am running a PAL/PAW/PAW setup and at the same time I have a backup system which is doing an hourly backup of my entire production system. If my production system gets corrupted, then I can immediately switch over to my backup setup so that my users will experience minimal downtime and continue working whilst we fix the production.

Many of my users are now running Quick reports and the backup setup will probably not share the same DNS server name as the production. So what is the fastest way that we can repoint all the quick reports from production DNS to the TEST.

Custom reports won't be affected but any file saved exploration views or quick reports will fail. And not all users have the technical know how to do the backend changes.


Is IBM thinking of making it easier for users to switch DNS server via a button in PAX OR something for situations like these?

Needed By Not sure -- Just thought it was cool