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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).


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


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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 function LISTAGG like DB2 and Oracle

Every query which need to group by and concat few columns is impossible with informix. For example for this SQL : select t.tabname, c.constrname ,k.checktext, k.seqno from sysconstraints c, systables t , outer syschecks k where t.tabname = 'my...
over 6 years ago in Informix 1 Not under consideration

Support for Japanese for watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed.

Several Japanese customers & business partners are requesting Japanese support for watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible. Many companies in Japan use Ansible to automate their day to day tasks in IT Operation. While Japanese customers and...
almost 3 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible 0 Future consideration

Add ADP Workforce Now integration for HR management

ADP is the largest payroll processor in the country and they are becoming a leader in HCM/HIRS. Further enhancing and efficiency of HCM departments seems like a natural.
almost 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

Give ISAM/tabid when syspurge() fails

We had a purge that was failing for a protracted period and it took a lot of trapping and tracing to figure out why, since the full error details were not being reported. In the interim, performance degraded and we risked running out of space.
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

Request support for Windows 2025

Add support for Windows 2025
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products / Informix Server 1 Under review

Implementation of WxO Guardrails for workflow

Implementation of the guardrail for workflow, should be implemented using the ADK as a pre‑invoke plug‑in; it cannot be configured through the IBM console UI. Currently there is no documentation or any clear instruction to guide developer to know ...
6 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Needs more information

Free automatically allocated lock memory

Since Lock resource (memory) would be automatically allocated when Informix engine defect that it's not enough. But these memory will be existing forever once allocate, unless restart Informix engine. Could these automatically allocated memory cou...
almost 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Add in a "cdr learn server" or something similiar to connect two servers on an ER domain that may not have known about each other previously.

Servers and networking change around. There may be cases where two ER nodes who previously were unaware of each other or 'forgot' about each other need to be reconnected. Right now the only way to resolve this cleanly is to drop one of them from t...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

SSO (Single Sign-On) for ODBC connections via ActiveDirectory authentication

The current configuration of a SSO (Single Sign-On) authentication for a Windows workstation is based on GSSCSM, for which support will be discontinued in future Informix releases and is very complex and error-prone. Alternatively, ODBC connection...
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Under review

End to end translation of major languages from all types of media in near-real time.

As commerce, military, and technology integration grows across nations, the need for an all-in-one service is very high.
6 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Needs more information