Doc re: Form DEF 14A

Company    INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

TIDM       IBM

Headline   Notification of filing of document

The Corporation's Notice of 2012 Annual Meeting and Proxy
Statement on Form DEF 14A dated March 12, 2012 was filed
with the United States Securities Exchange Commission and
in Luxembourg with the Luxembourg Stock Exchange as the
officially appointed mechanism for the central storage of
regulated information and with the CSSF on March 13, 2012.
The report is available at www.sec.gov and www.bourse.lu.

There are no registered stockholders with 5% or more shares 
as of December 31, 2011.

The DEF 14A filing contains information as to certain persons
who have publicly disclosed that they are the beneficial 
owners of more than five percent of the Company's common 
stock as of December 31, 2011.