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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    Make User Memory default to ON. Currently User Memory default is OFF

    Idea: User memory should be ON by default and users could opt out. This'd give users the better experience by default without them needing to figure out that the memory is there and how to turn it on. Impact: We cannot use Agent Memory currently b...
    5 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

    Unload to file should have option that prevents over writing of an existing file

    A customer writes some SQL that captures the pre-data to an unload file and then does the updates/deletes etc. If the SQL is successful and inadvertently run again the initial pre-data will be lost.
    over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Future consideration

    WCA4z Missing native support for GIT

    BBVA complaint that in WCA4z is missing the native support for GIT.
    almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Needs more information

    Custom sizing ConfigMap for non-prod deployment

    1. Provide a custom sizing ConfigMap appropriate for a nonprod/staging/demo deployment with the following profile: - CP4AIOps 4.13 with aiopsFoundation, applicationManager, aiManager modules - WXO 7.1.0 in agentic mode - Steady-state usage (demo/t...
    5 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

    enhancements to sysprocedures table and dbschema utility

    Currently, there does not appear to be anything in the sysprocedures table to identify which procedures are provided by Informix (system routines) vs those created by users (user routines). The mode column does not appear to address this particula...
    about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    session setting to make an index invisible just for the current session

    It would be useful to have a session setting that makes an index INVISIBLE for the current session only as well as a session setting to reverse that and make an index VISIBLE for the session. The latter might only work to reverse session level inv...
    over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 4 Functionality already exists

    Have a Event alarm ID for allocating an new virtual shared memory segment

    Add a EVENT_CLASS value for event of Server's dynamically allocating an new virtual shared memory segment
    almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Planned for future release

    Character length semantics instead of byte length semantics

    We want to store UTF8 text data into our database but using byte length semantics is counter intuitive on the char and varchar types. We are using Fourj's Genero tool to develop our application and Genero is able to switch to character length sema...
    over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Future consideration

    Better dbaccess output formats

    CSV output, or at at least tabular output with headings would be appreciated A "quiet" or "errors only" mode would also be good, as too many times errors get lost because stderr was sent to /dev/null, because most of the things dbaccess writes t...
    10 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Add Connections information as a metric into active Nginx pods and update HPA configuration to scale based on connections, not CPU.

    On December 2nd, 2025 when Digital traffic was diverted entirely to Central cluster, we noticed intermittent spikes in response times. we noticed internal connections failing (ie 404 errors from Redis) and with joint product team debugging determi...
    10 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

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