IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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,

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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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    In 4GL, ability to interrogate call stack, to determine where a function is being called from

    Add ability in 4GL, within a given function, to look at the call stack, to determine what function called the current function.
    almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

    4GL Support for direct calls to Java

    Add support in 4GL to directly call Java Programs, pass arguments and receive return values
    almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

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

    Add ability to directly execute OS commands in the host OS
    almost 2 years 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.
    almost 2 years 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
    almost 2 years 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
    almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Under review

    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.
    almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

    Clone a database

    I routinely need to clone a Production database (not the whole instance) onto another instance on another machine. Formerly, I used onunload to do this, and worked like a charm. However, onunload does not work with blobs, and after we incorporated...
    about 13 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Functionality already exists

    Conditional confirmation of a caller’s utterance based on a confidence threshold.

    Here is a hypothetical example, where the confidence threshold is set between 75 and 85% System: “How may I help you?” Customer: “I need to track my package” Confidence factor = 89% (above range). The system proceeds to the next prompt in the WISM...
    over 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

    Request to improve Italian Speech model to improve recognition, especially for letters.

    This would help customers using the product in Italy to properly input their tracking numbers with less friction and frustration, increasing call rate completion/containment.
    8 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Under review

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