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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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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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Add dbschema to Informix CSDK

Developers have the Informix Client SDK installed on their workstations / application development machines. There is the need to be able to dump the Informix databases schemas definitions, but the SDK does not provide any such tool. To work around...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Modernize dbexport/dbimport and control them from HQ

dbexport and dbimport are useful tools, very easy to use and straight forward. but as the database are growing exponentially, the tool is showing its limitations and a workaroud must be generally be applied, which are kind of time consuming to wri...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 3 Not under consideration

Enable Rule-Based Suppression of Measurement Drilldowns for Small Groups

We need the ability to define conditional rules that restrict the reporting of specific measurements when drilldowns result in small group sizes, so that compliance with privacy and ethical standards can be ensured and unintended efficiency analys...
3 months ago in watsonx BI 0 Submitted

Configurable separation of data pools

Configuration option to allow / prohibit certain data pools to be joined. E.g. the total data Watsonx.BI has access to consist of multiple pools of data: DataPool A, B and C. Prohibit: Join of data pool A with data pool B Prohibit: Join of data po...
3 months ago in watsonx BI 0 Submitted

German language support

All documents and data on-site is in German. German is the primary business language.
3 months ago in watsonx BI 0 Submitted

Request support for Windows 2025

Add support for Windows 2025
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products / Informix Server 1 Under review

JDBC suport of collection data types in scroll cursors

Currently the usage of collection data type columns in scroll cursors are disabled by default throwing an Exception with this stack trace. Stack trace returned is: at com.informix.util.IfxErrMsg.buildExceptionWithMessage(IfxErrMsg.java:416) at com...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Connection Manager should check if a secondary server is in sync before allowing connections to that server

When you have a primary and a secondary both server are in sync. But if you need to stop one of them for maintenaince reasons then it becomes out of sync. When you start it again the server might be so many log ahead and need to sync but the serve...
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

Request Full Compatible GSKIT with HCL INFORMIX SERVER

With the newest HCL Informix 14.10.FC11W1X2 it is neccesary to set ENV 'ISI_GSK_FIPS_MODE=OFF' on every IBM CSDK GSKIT Client to get a working SSL Connection to a HCL INFORMIX 14.10.FC11W1X2 OPENSSL SERVER. A GSKIT is needed where it is not necces...
8 months 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 ...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted