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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:


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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,


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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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Enable customers running 24/7 to create unique indexes

Our Internet and Mobile applications are used 24/7 and we do not have any batch windows nor any maintenance windows. When creating new indexes on existing tables the a CREATE INDEX operation generates an unwanted outage when created with DEFER NO....
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow INSERT to write to external tables

Currently one can only write to an external table by selecting from an existing table. There are many uses for writing to an external table that do not involved writing only the results of a SELECT query. Combined with RFE INFX-I-61, Appendable Ex...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Reset dashboard to default settings.

Reset dashboard to default settings with e.g. a button. -reset filters in "explorer view" . (not filters done in edit mode) -reset drilldowns with the same button It must be easy for a user to reset a dashboard to default settings in an easy way. ...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

db2look with -printdbcfg must support parameters with "automatic" value

To clone a database and all its objects IBM recommend to use the db2look utility. If you use the -printdbcfg to clone the db configuration too the db2look utility generate the parameter values in the update commands but without the "automatic" val...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Set Default Option for Select and Search Prompt

Would like a property for Select and Search prompts that allows setting / modifying the default option.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Relationship Editor - Selecting several related items at one time

Real-life scenario is that user has to add several related items to a product in persona-based UI. For example user need to create a relationship from item A to 25 items 1 ....25. Currently user has to open the editor, search and select items in r...
8 months ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

EMail Template should be allowed to have different Body and Subject for each workflow.

Users will get better explanation for the action to be taken as each workflow has its own motive to send emails to the users.
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 6 Not under consideration

I want to execute an arbitrary process when the workbook is opened or closed in Workspace.

<AsIs> Currently, the only way to start a process is to click a button or execute it as a job. <ToBe> I want to be able to execute an arbitrary process when the Workbook is opened or closed in Workspace.
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Role concept WKC catalog – all user with role CPD Admin should have admin permissions on all catalogs

In the current implementation, a CPD admin can not access all catalogs. It could be possible that , if the catalog creator left or is not available, no one can administer the catalog. There should be a super admin catalog role that has access to a...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Select color coding

Need the ability to set colors for specific data items consistently from tile to tile.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration