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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My ideas: Informix Client Products

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Build a Informix HQ server Container

The current process for deploying Informix HQ servers and agents across 600+ sites involves manually redoing scripts and configuration files for each site. This process is time-consuming, error-prone, and difficult to scale as it requires individu...
8 days ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 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 ...
16 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.
16 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 ...
16 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.
16 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.
16 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
16 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
16 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.
16 days 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
16 days ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

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