Skip to Main Content
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).


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



ADD A NEW IDEA

Clear

Ideas

Showing 685 of 18234

Multi-Vector Functionality

Multi-Vector Database functionality (like Milvus). May be an additional functionality like time-series or as datablade like geospatial and text-search.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Under review

Informix v15 PDF Manuals

PDF Manuals are needed for offline use.
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Restrict access to WSDL

We are using web services inside IPM and we managed to restrict access to authenticated users that means users with an active account defined within IPM. But we didn't success in restricting access to wsdl file that stay public and may cause a sec...
26 days ago in Product Master 0 Under review

Automatically display the Primary hierarchy by default in Persona UI

Currently, when users open the catalog in Persona, the hierarchy field appears blank, requiring manual selection each time.It would be more efficient if the hierarchy defined as Primary in the model were displayed automatically by default. This en...
28 days ago in Product Master 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

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
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted
110 VOTE

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

Extend the Persona UI to include the functionality for creating user IDs/roles/acg

Extend the Persona UI to include the functionality for creating user IDs, currently available only in the Admin UI. This enhancement will help reduce reliance on the Admin UI and offer a more unified user management experience.
7 months ago in Product Master 1 Planned for future release