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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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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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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 year 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 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Planned for future release

Segregating visibility of lookup tables

Today is not possible to give different visibility (based on different roles or ACG) on Lookup Tables. For example, we would like to give some roles the visibility of the whole list of lookup tables, and others only a subset of them. This is usefu...
about 1 year ago in Product Master 0 Future consideration

Greater distinction between the Input / "All Leaf" level in the PAfE cube viewer / PAW exploration.

Discounting ruled cells, the only distinction between an "All Leaf" cell and a consolidation is that the cell is normal or bold text formatted.This distinction is too subtle. You can only tell the difference between a bold and normal formatted tex...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Character length semantics instead of byte length semantics

We want to store UTF8 text data into our database but using byte length semantics is counter intuitive on the char and varchar types. We are using Fourj's Genero tool to develop our application and Genero is able to switch to character length sema...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Future consideration

MFA Authentication to snowflake using OKTA

In our SNOWFLAKE Environment, Password login is disabled and authentication is through OKTA only for all users. When we are trying import a table from snowflake, it is asking for username and credentials. Since, users doesn't have credentials, the...
about 1 year ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Chose color for different columns

We want functionality where we can choose color depending on some criteria’s. Example We have a column which contains information if the household is a partner, single men, or single women. This data will be shown in a pie chart were the size depe...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

Enable/Disable replication (InSync) via IDAA HA Loader

If you enable an already loaded table, the following steps are carried out: ○ The data in the accelerator-shadow table is deleted. ○ The accelerator-shadow table is reset to the InitialLoadPending state. ○ Query acceleration is turned off f...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 3 Delivered

Export Data Module test like in a report

While checking my data module you can "test" you data by clicking "Testing". But there is no possibility to export the data to validate it with other data I've in MS Excel for e.g.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Needed a new option that would stop any job to instantiate a pipeline inside a data collector then when all the currently running pipeline will terminate then the data collector would shutdown automatically

Needed a new option that would stop any job to instantiate a pipeline inside a data collector then when all the currently running pipeline will terminate then the data collector would shutdown automatically. 1 provide a lock at the control plan le...
4 months ago in StreamSets 0 Needs more information