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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).


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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In 4GL, ability to directly execute Linux/Unix commands

Add ability to directly execute OS commands in the host OS
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

In 4GL, provide ability to read/write to text files in the local file system

Provide ability directly in 4GL to read and/or write data to plain text files, located on the programs local file system.
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

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
about 1 month 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
about 1 month 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
about 1 month 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.
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

Drive Explorer - Retain sorting order after clicking refresh and have preferred default sorting setting

Currently within Drive Explorer if you sort by the Last Updated column and then click on the refresh button the view reverts back to sorting by the Name in ASC order. The screen you are in should retain the sorting order you have just selected. In...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Operator role at the project level

In traditional Datastage (Information Server), it's possible to assign users and/or groups the Operator (or SuperOperator) role where the user cannot modify the project but can run jobs. A similar role doesn't seem to be possible in Datastage Next...
9 months ago in DataStage 0

Install CP4D using private registry in OCP with unqualified-search-registries configuration

If you are planning the installation of CP4D, but the customer has OCP configured with unqualified-search-registries (called also "image short names" and configured in image registry via containerRuntimeSearchRegistries). So, during installation, ...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Enhancement request for improvement on the visibility of border formatting

In Microsoft Excel (PAfE), it is possible (with a cell selected) to include the following formatting: menu Home/Font/More Borders/ --> "Bottom Double Border" However, this formatting is not fully visible when the spreadsheet is published an...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted