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 10137

Validate Reports Administratively after Model or Data Module Update

As an administrator/developer, we would like to have the ability to administratively validate/save reports after updating the source metadata model package or data module. At present, owners of reports have to be notified when a model/data module ...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Access to statistics like memory, CPU, disk space - presentation in a dashboard

Hello IBM'ers, As explained in support ticket TS010721444. IBM PAoC customers of ours would like to be able to access certain statistics: memory, CPU, the information from the fileshare, etc. Meaning, how much space was used, what is total space, ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Simplify setting up CP4D monitoring and alerting #cpfield

Setting up CP4D alerting (e.g. forwarding alerts to slack/email) should be as simple as when setting up alerting for OCP with Prometheus. Everything should be able to be done in the web console. This would enable people who are not experienced w...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

More meaning APAR Software version

When reviewing an APAR on IBM site, there is a "Software version" field. This field invariable lists some meaningless value. For example, https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/PH42408?myns=swgimgmt&mynp=OCSSTSF6&mync=E&cm_sp=swgimgmt-...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 2 Not under consideration

Need Governor on Netezza Appilance

Need a way (automated) to cancel very long running SQLon the Netezza Appliance(IDAA) that is impacting the CDC data latency running on Z/OS LPAR. Some type of governor is needed in the Netezza Appliance in order to insure that no run away SQL runn...
over 9 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Option to terminate of SLB after timeout if HSM doesn't answer Flashcopy-request fast

I would like to have an timeout in DB2 for SLB-processing!If HSM is in error it may be able to accept the Flashcopy-request but not to fulfill it. To prevent 00D70044 there should be an option for a DB2-internal timeout of SLB-processing.If this t...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add capability for Normalization from dictionaries

Add capability for Normalization from dictionaries. At the moment, normalization is done from a generic dictionary, and it is important for clients to have normalization done from their dictionaries.
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Display Report in the Business Analytics Dashboard tab. Share the same Report between Dashboards.

Display and share reports created using new report authoring environment in the Dashboards.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

No checkboxes on prompt page

In CA11 the check box options are not available on the prompt page when we create "Context filter" and apply "Prompt on Hierarchy" in CA. In Cognos 10 there was a check box selection and the customer was able to select the check box and was able t...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

support for localized value separators in file upload

As self service BI is one of the major themes within CA 11, it should be easy for business users to easily upload any file (csv, xls) from their local environment into the CA11 on cloud, taking into account localized parameters from the customer: ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration