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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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Copy more than 120 elements in the Set Editor

It's not possible to copy more then 120 Elements in Set Editor. Only the currently loaded page is copied, currently 120 members, and is subject to change as we deem fit for performance reasons. We do not copy across pages.
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Scrollable Area Height & Width Property for Crosstabs, ie Freeze Row/Column Headers

The list data container has a property for Scrollable Area Height. The freezes the column headers and allows the user to scroll throught the data with the column headers staying visible. This functionality works in interactive and classic report v...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

In 4GL, add support for more modern Data and Object Types

In 4GL, add support for multiple Industry standard data and Object types: String HashMap (and/or Dictionary) and HashList Data Frame (as in Python) External Record - portable, custom written records that can be shared globally or between function ...
9 days ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

In 4GL, ability to formulate and send emails

Add ability in 4GL to create a formatted email and send to selected recipients.
9 days ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

In 4GL forms, add support for a scrollable text field

In 4GL Forms, ability to define a text field or text area, where the data associated is larger than the allotted area. When the user enters data in the field/area, the data will 'scroll' either left/right or up-down, to allow the user to continue ...
9 days ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

In 4GL, Expand Character-Based forms beyond the current 24x76 size

Expand the current form-size to beyond the current 24x76 size, and allow the form to be scrollable, both left-right and up-down.
9 days ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

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