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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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Request to introduce a new feature - Batch RDV Delete

Please refer to the support case for more details. Some operations may take longer to complete due to the data volume involved. Until such an operation is finished, its future effect is not yet presented by UI. That is because the Glossary has a d...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Create an Archive checker to validate L1 backups

We need a tool that validates the Level1 backups in a similar manner of the L0 backups arch-checker
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

When restoring a Cloud Pak for Data online backup to the same cluster with IBM Storage Fusion, need to eliminate the requirement to manually delete the CP4D instance projects before the restore is con

This idea would be beneficial for CP4D customers who do not have a DR cluster environment and need to conduct backup/restore testing within the same cluster. CLients are risk averse to deleting the namespaces of their instances where the restore i...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Allow online index builds of functional indexes

The fact that we can't build functional indexes online effectively precludes them from use - or at least, makes it very difficult, as we can't do offline builds without an outage - which is expensive
2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

User activity logs on Cloudpak for Data Platform.

There is no logs of user activity on the platform. It would be great to have a user friendly page on the platform, where admin can just to look and get the details of user activity on the platform. Currently, i use zen-audit logs from cmd line to ...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Functionality already exists
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Informix should be able to change owner on tables and any other objects

If user=informix creates all database and all tables, then programmer creates table but user=informix cannot change it. Only drop it.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Increasing LO_hdr_partn size limit in every chunk in sbspace Metadata partition

We have a system with a lot of users and big amount of BLOB/CLOB data. It's critical 24x7 application. It should be created a new sbspace about 1TB - with 8 chunks x 140GB every 6 months, because the limit in LO_hdr_partn in sbspace Metadata Parti...
8 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

onmode -I <error No> should have an optional flag to automagically turn off the trapping

Real world, intermittently I see a 208 error from the app layer, typically in batches of 100 or so and normally at inconvenient times. This would allow me to set the onmode -I and walk away until the error trips and not having the server swamped w...
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Cloud Pak Configuration as Code

We have 3 Installations of Cloud Pak for Data (Stages - PROD, QA, BUILD) and would need the ability to configure the hole instance in a git repository. To Configure Cloud Pak for Data "ArgoCD" like as code in yaml form. Why do we need this: It is ...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Planned for future release

Login prompt option is not visible when we are using OIDC/SAML provider

When logging in using an OIDC provider, username and password fields in the UI are not visible to facilitate login for technical users. Generally for the personal login, OIDC should just login without prompting username and password. But we need t...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review