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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,


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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

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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
2 months 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
2 months 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
2 months 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.
2 months 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 ...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

PAW notification for outage, change etc.

Currently, there no way to notify users on PAW interface itself. There are many tools which show yellow notification bar with important messages such as outages, timelines etc. Something like this on PAW interface could be of great help. This feat...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Datamodule doesn't support store procedures

By introducing the capability to import database stored procedures as parameterized query objects in the Data Module, you could streamline your workflow within Cognos and eliminate the need for additional Cognos Framework Manager installations. Th...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Hand-crafted MDX should retain formatting like line breaks and indents

When writing multi-line MDX, the formatting is crucial to being able to read the code, debug and make updates at a later stage. Saving the MDX without formatting means that the next time it is opened, you need to revisit the code, add in the forma...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

How to change Correl-ID on DB2 z/OS using DB2 Connect from Microfocus Enterprise Server?

Hello We are from Banco Santander Brasil. As a global project, we are moving some applications from z/OS mainframe environment to Microfocus Enterprise Server on Linux. Microfocus Enterprise Server product accesses DB2 z/OS through DB2 Connect v.1...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Optimize db2advis (recommend indexes) with machine learning (ML) models

Isn’t it possible to use the data model information from machine learning (ML) also for the db2advis (recommend indexes)? The idea is, that db2advis also can use the data model to get new recommended indexes.
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Under review