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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).


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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:


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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,


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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

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Add Native 4GL support for build/parse of JSON and XML formatted data

Add ability directly in 4GL to build and parse files/objects in: JSON format XML format
20 days ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

In 4GL, Add support for non-Informix Databases

Add ability to: Connect to multiple databases simultaneously Connect to non-Informix Databases, such as Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MySQL, etc
20 days ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

Add Web Services support directly in 4GL language

Provide ability directly in 4GL for a Web Services Interface, both as a client of external services, AND as a provider of services. Support SOAP and REST protocols, as well as SFTP/FTP
20 days ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

Enhance 4GL Language to offer a GUI Interface, for both WIndows, MAC, Linux X and Browset

Enhance the Forms-based User Interface to support a Graphical interface consistent with current technologies offered by Microsoft Windows, MAC OS, Linux X, and Web Browsers.
20 days ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

The ability to create custom button of our own – mimic Cognos buttons

This is a requirement to have the ability to to create custom button of our own – mimic Cognos buttons. For example - Suppose I want to place a run as background button on the HTML output page so that users dont have to go to report path and do ru...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Include DataStage v11.7.x compatibility with Visual Studio Community Versions (2019, 2022)

Kindly consider including current version of Microsoft Visual Studio Community versions (eg. 2019, 2022) as we are upgrading to DataStage v11.7.1 fp5. Based on the DataStage v11.7.1 fp5 compatibility report: https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/co...
2 months ago in DataStage 1 Submitted

Route a report to run in background only (New Admin Feature)

We have some long running reports and users should run in background and not interactively. We do communicate to users to do this, but they do not always do it. I am requesting a feature where and Admin can make a report only run in background and...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

When restoring content with "CM.DEPLOYMENTINCLUDECONFIGURATION=True", offer an option to merge the configration parameters from the old to new dispatcher.

It is not always possible to deploy content to servers with identically-named hosts. Currently, all of the configurations (including tuning settings and advanced parameters at the dispatcher and service levels) are deployed into the "old" dispatch...
23 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Provide more informative error messages for database connection issues in the UI.

Currently, users encounter vague error messages in the UI when facing database connection issues, which necessitates accessing CP4D logs to identify the root cause. By enhancing the clarity and detail of these error messages, users will have a mor...
about 1 month ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Implement a possibility to configure the ctrlChars option for dataset storage in DB2

When we enable the dataset storage in DB2 and attempt to pull in data warehouse data into a dataset, we get a failure to store the data due to DB2 complaining about ascii characters below 31. CSV and Excel files seems to be stripped during upload,...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted