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 14439

Create Schema Based on Shared Container Links

When columns of the Shared Container links do not match the metadata of the stage in the job on mapping it, you should have the option to add the missing columns in the schema.
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Support of Oracle 12 release 2

Are there any plans to provide patches for 11.5 and 11.3 that would make them compatible with Oracle 12.2? Can we escalate a request for those patches to be created? How quickly could we expect a patch if they will create one for us. If we have ou...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

FR581: Enable pushdown and transitive closure for LIKE with parameter markers to table expressions

As part of SAP Core Data Services (CDS), SAP supports 'type as you search' capability when entering values in panels. As part of this processing, they issue the following query on a view which includes a UNION clause. The access path with DB2 is n...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Enable admin group access Admin Console

When group configure enabled in options.cfg, it should be able to set 'administrator, "Group"' that adding/removing members from the Group instead of changing options.cfg file.
over 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Support image saving in stories (ad-hoc drag and drop)

I would consider stories before powerpoint (Microsoft) but only if I could upload images ad-hoc to the stories I'm telling. Let there be an image folder for every user if that's what it takes on the server.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

More default options to set in individual user preferences to make the system more personalized

We are missing options to be set for individual users on their preferences. Like default options to be selected in run as / delivery (by defualt disable prompting, by default send report by email, by default attach report output)
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to send RFI (FI to FI) via DPUI for Originated(outgoing) Credit Transfer

Initiate RFI (FI) on outgoing CT – The functionality is listed as non-mandatory on the TCH 2.9 certification list. It was not implemented in any FTM 3.2 releases Ops tried to initiate a FI to FI RFI on an originated transaction and was not able to...
about 3 years ago in FTM for Digital Payments / Financial Management (Accounting, Settlement, etc.) 0 Planned for future release

Cognos 11.1.7 FP2: How to hide/disable email address text box under My preferences > Personal tab

Problem: We have decided that we will not support email from other email or external email. However, users still see "Email" under My preferences > Personal tab. We would like to request the steps for hiding/disabling the email option. Steps to...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Deselect marks in Full Interactive Viewer

When you mark elements in a report which runs with full interactive viewer, you aren't able to deselect them. Your only option is to select another section - removing the mark is not possible. This can distract the user because there is always the...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DSNHDECP usage

The DSNHDECP modules is currently used in our shop and needs to be created for every DB2 subsystem, or data sharing group. This means that we need to create individual SDSNEXIT libraries for each subsystem. We used to have one SDSNEXIT which held ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration