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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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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,

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  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Appendable External Tables

Need an option to open/create an external table that appends to the file(s) defined on the table on insert rather than overwriting the file(s).
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

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...
about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Ability to sync tables to HDR & RSS secondaries when converting from RAW to STANDARD mode.

It is significantly faster to load a table in TYPE(RAW) mode than TYPE(STANDARD) mode. However, this option is not practical for sites using HDR and/or RSS secondary servers for replication as RAW mode tables do not replicate forcing the site to b...
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Add option to remove last 20 terminated sessions from onstat outtput

https://community.ibm.com/community/user/hybriddatamanagement/discussion/avoid-to-see-the-last-20-sessions-terminated-in-onstat?ReturnUrl=%2fcommunity%2fuser%2fhybriddatamanagement%2fcommunities%2fcommunity-home%2fdigestviewer%3fcommunitykey%3dcf5...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add Materialized Views to Infomrix same as Oracle and DB2

Add Materialized Views to Infomrix same as Oracle and DB2
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Under review

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...
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 3 Planned for future release

Restrict Access to deployed agents

The IBM Cloud client believes workspaces as described in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/watson-orchestrate/base?topic=agents-overview-workspaces is for building stage only. In the clients' words "How I would envision it, would be to re-use th...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Under review

Add TCP_NODELAY as a CSDK Parameter

We are a comprehensive ERP platform serving thousands of business users across industries in Australia and internationally. The application runtime is built on C/ESQL and connects to IBM Informix as its database engine via the CSDK ESQL/C API. As ...
7 months 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
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Planned for future release

Add context window compaction to the Agent options

Create options within the agent to allow context window compaction. Current limitations in the tool mean that once the context window is full the agent will stop looking at knowledge bases and tools. This issue is made more pressing when connectin...
7 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review