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.

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    Extend watsonx Code Assistant for Z – Optimize to support PL/I performance analysis and optimization.

    Many enterprise z/OS customers still run important workloads in PL/I, especially in banking and insurance. Today Optimize works well for COBOL, but PL/I is not supported, so teams still rely on manual analysis or a few experienced PL/I experts to ...
    10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 9 Under review

    SQL command to set environment variable, not just some onconfig parameters

    Motivation: In order for some queries to work, I had to remember to set some environment variables at the shell level. In my case: PSORT_NPROCS PSORT_DBTEMP DBDATE I know I can use "set environment" for a limited number of onconfig paramet...
    2 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Under review

    The way Japanese input is handled in the prompt

    I'm using WCA on VSCode 1.96.4 / macOS 15.2. When entering Japanese text in the input prompt, I often need to convert characters to kanji. However, pressing Enter to confirm the conversion also sends the input as a message in WCA Assistant Chat, r...
    over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 2 Future consideration

    Request official support for monitoring Informix with Datadog products

    Request the ability to monitor Informix using Datadog products as customer relies on Datadog as their central monitoring platform and would prefer to consolidate all activities there
    about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Future consideration

    Make scroll cursors more consistent when lists/collections are involved

    This RFE is for removing the protection to disable collection types in scroll cursor at the prepare phase, and fail only at runtime if the cursor retrieves a row greater than row limit.
    7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

    Informix v15 PDF Manuals

    PDF Manuals are needed for offline use.
    almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

    Add a new bjobs filter about CPU

    Hello, Bjobs is providing information about MEMORY and CPU usage. Example:bjobs -o "jobid cpu_peak average_cpu_efficiency cpu_peak_reached_duration" 9242578 JOBID CPU_PEAK AVERAGE_CPU_EFFICIENCY CPU_PEAK_REACHED_DURATION 9242578 1.22 2.58% 65 seco...
    27 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Under review

    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 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Under review

    Introduce Named Variables on Informix .NET Core

    Named variables is a feature that is widely used by developers (specially those who use .NET Technologies) where they nominate a parameter, set him some value and them execute a SQL Statement passing the named variable as a filter.
    about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

    Make Informix .NET Core work with DRDA Protocol

    The main idea of this request is: today Informix .NET Core needs ODBC from OS. Using DRDA protocol, Informix .NET Core doesn't has any ODBC dependency, which makes easy the development for applications specially when these applications were built ...
    about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

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