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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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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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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
14 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
14 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.
14 days ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

Login in as function for supporting users

Would be nice to have a log in as function where you could choose a user and log into the system as they are set up. This would help troubleshooting access issues, data visibility, security etc. Having this functionality would allow us to resolve ...
14 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Change/Update ownership of Schedules to Service Accounts

We would like the ability to change or update the ownership of schedules to service accounts. By default they are owned by the creator, however this leaves a single source of failure if the person would leave. Also when creating scheduled emails, ...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 3 Submitted

Render Variable to show/hide columns not working in CSV and Excel Data formats

We have a prompt page (Check Box prompt ) to select/unselect columns to show/hide in the list report. We are using Boolean variable accordingly to show/hide the columns based on the prompt[t selection. We have around 80 columns in the choices of t...
28 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

When restoring a Cloud Pak for Data online backup to the same cluster with IBM Storage Fusion, need to eliminate the requirement to manually delete the CP4D instance projects before the restore is con

This idea would be beneficial for CP4D customers who do not have a DR cluster environment and need to conduct backup/restore testing within the same cluster. CLients are risk averse to deleting the namespaces of their instances where the restore i...
8 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

v2/scim/Users API endpoint to support filtering by active

It would be useful to be able to filter by active when pulling users back from the API. Currently we can pull back everyone (active: true and active:false) and loop through to filter out what we don't need, but it would be more efficient to only p...
8 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Submitted

Data Protection Rules: support combination of rules to filter data

Defining more complex and sequential rules is essential to comply with business access rules in larger businesses w/o having to define hundreds of rules. Given is a table with regions "A" and "B" and a user community getting access to either A or ...
8 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Pacemaker to be able to start instance on new Standby post network isolation incident

Hi IBM, we had a network isolation between between Primary and Standby database servers for 5 minutes. Pacemaker promoted Principal Standby DB to be primary and killed the process on old Primary DB. Network isolation has passed but Pacemaker didn'...
8 days ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Submitted