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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


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


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Oracle balanced optimization doesn't support timestamp data type with microseconds

Our business requirement is to store date fields as timestamp with microsecond precision. Balanced optimization for Oracle is not able to optimize transformer stage that contains date literals with this precision. IBM engineering confirmed that th...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Elements with just one hidden parent show up as Orphans( trashing UI selection)

Elements that roll up into Hierarchies that the users have no access are being displayed as orphans and (even though they are not) This seem to be due to the fact that some parents of the elements are hidden via security and other parents are not....
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

SPSS CNDS access SQL databases hosted on cloud

Would love to have SPSS CNDS access sql databases hosted on Cloud(azure sql database or azure sql managed instance or AWS RDS). As an organization direction to move to cloud, recently we have spun up Azure sql database as a service and tried to po...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Planned for future release

Help with audio file slicing

Currently I can submit a word or phrase with an audio file and receive back the time code of the word or phrase. We need the time codes of the periods, question marks, and exclamation marks. In other words, we want to upload a transcript with the ...
over 3 years ago in Speech Services 2 Planned for future release

Need an API to get exit value of Collaboration Category

As per requirement, customer is looking to have mandatory comment in any step for Category workflow.
over 3 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Product support for Infosphere MDM verions installed on Nutanix

We have adopted Nutanix as our chosen on premises infrastructure hypervisor technology and the lack of support for this platform is concerning and may prevent us migrating to the latest software version (currently 9.7). Any future plans for suppor...
over 3 years ago in Master Data Management 4 Functionality already exists

Implicit logged temp tables should use logged spaces listed in DBSPAETEMP

The documentation suggests that logged temp tables will be stored in any logged dbspaces listed in the DBSPACETEMP parameter/client environment variable. Yet when selecting from a view based on a union query, we find that the root dbspace is alway...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Less information in error messages

The web application for Cognos Business Intelligence V10.2.2 discloses internal information at several locations. The information can be used by attackers to narrow down further possible attack vectors. The examples are version information and det...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IIS 11.5 DataStage support Date and Time data type for Parquet

We have been using IIS 11.5 with FP2 for couple years now for Hadoop data ingestion. New version of Parquet has provide date, time date type. Other tools and language has adopted this very quickly. Now we have received a lot of request to load Dat...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Requesting that IBM certify Datastage 11.5 on Power9 and AIX 7.1 TL4

All, We specifically purchased this hardware to host DataStage after reviewing the available documentation on the IBM website(See links below). We are unable to upgrade to 11.7 because we rely heavily on CDC in our processing as well as other comp...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration