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 715

Data Manager enhancement: Mark job as DONE after file reaches final destination

We want the main job to be marked as DONE only after the data file has been successfully transferred to the user-specified destination. Currently, with the integration of LSF and Data Manager, the main job is marked as DONE as soon as the 'bstage ...
about 23 hours ago in Spectrum LSF / Data Management 0 Under review

Restore Data Masking using salts in IBM Knowledge Catalog

The deprecation of the functionality to support data masking using user-specified salts in IBM Knowledge Catalog on Cloud Pak for Data v5.1.0 has raised significant concerns among our healthcare customer base and new customers. This proposal outli...
1 day ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

GSLA Resource Loaning - Add the ability to loan to specific users or projects

When a GSLA resource pool is defined for a specific type of workload, it is not practical or desirable to loan to just any other type of job profile. The work-a-round today is to include a resource limit definition to prevent this from occurring. ...
2 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Under review

In RACF in ADMIN Tool we cant see profile starting with *.

In our environment we using for SSID qualifier *. and <SSID> , but we can only use this new RACF functionality for <SSID> can you please add *. as well?
5 days ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Under review

Index on Expression with Soundex Function

For most Index on Expression uses we've been able to just include the function as part of the index without any extra changes involved. Such as with the column UPPER(colname). Just create the index with that option. However SOUNDEX requires that y...
5 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

DB2 LUW Compatibility for Rocky Linux Operating System

Rocky Linux has proven to be a reliable and stable Linux operating system, supported by most database (RDBMS and NoSQL) software vendors for running database services. Aligning with this operating environment would be cost-effective and ensure a r...
6 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

Add feature IKC integration supports Spark engine in addtion to Presto (Java, C++) engines.

From the link, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/watsonxdata/2.0.x?topic=catalog-enabling-knowledgeIt says "IKC supports Presto (Java) connections only".And from the link,It says "You can define IKC governance policies for Presto (C++), and Pres...
7 days ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review

Request for Manta Data Export Format Alignment with Alation's Native Lineage Expectations

We need confirmation on how Manta exports lineage data to Alation to ensure it matches Alation's native lineage structure. Specifically, we are requesting details on: 1. Data Format: The exact format in which Manta sends data to Alation. 2. Lineag...
7 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Under review

Include method to build ls_sim license files to required format

For LSF clusters that employ license scheduler... During the direct importing of a cluster configuration from the LSF Cognitive GUI, or when generating a tar.gz file for importing, build the license files into the ls_sim directory automatically, o...
7 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Simulation & Prediction 0 Under review

Add a message to report orphan threads in DB2

Due to TCPIP abend, there are several orphan threads in DB2 causing contention issues on resources. There is no message to report these orphan threads. Having a report helps us to avoid contention issues sooner by cancelling the underlying orphan ...
7 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review