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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Db2 LUW Automatic maintenance window setting

Current automatic maintenance does not allow to have multiple offline or online maintenance windows, only one of each. For example, we have automatic online maintenance window for 4 hours at night daily but need to have another definition for 24 h...
over 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Folder and Report Permissions interface is difficult to use

Cognos 11 Folder/Report permissions interface is very hard to use. Cognos 10.2.2 Folder/Report permissions interface is much better than Cognos 11. We can see all the user groups at one time when viewing permissions tab. It's also very easy and ef...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Hide 'My Content' in 'Save as' fields

CA11.0.7 on Windows 2012We need the Functionality that 'My Content' will be not visible by the Customer, it should be in Control of one Role/Group. For hiding the 'My Content' Folder in Navigation Bar we have a Solution, but for hiding the 'My Con...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Name of Query

Go to query navigates to a view with the query in the main window and list of queries on the left, BUT no indication as to which query
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Internet Explorer Windows Mode is not working for all functionalities in Report Studio or Query Studio

1) Query Studio or Report Studio• Could not drag and drop the dimensions that I want into the content box. • Reports could not be successfully exported out (be it 2002 or 2007 Ms Excel versions) consistently. Sometime it can be exported, somet...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Config for the server to refuse to start if shared memory segments do not use huge pages.

When shared memory segments are not using huge pages there can be performance impact I would like an option for the engine to abort startup similar to FULL_DISK_INIT=0 if huge pages cannot be used for shared memory segments. Scenario: sysmaster sy...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

SSO connection for Cognos Client Tools

Cognos Dynamic Query Analyzer and Cube Designer for windows does not provide SSO
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Process, Risk, Control Information can be updated right away in the task view like in the Standard UI Filtered List View

To lessen the clicks and to have the user stay in same window, enable user to update Process, Risk, Control Information right away in the task view like in the Standard UI Filtered List View.
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

Disable auto-refresh functionality for all users on Infosphere Datastage Director

Customer want to stop the "auto-refresh" option of Datastage Director Client for all users connecting to a Windows machine. He already know about the StopRefresh keyword under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/IBM/InformationServer... but this is only va...
about 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Date picker in Contributor window to show current date instead of 01/01/1899

Users will not have to click 100+ time to arrive to current 2023 year in date picker for every new entry they have to input.
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration