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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    Only in-memory Temp table

    Temporary table only cached in the memory, it does not to write into the temp dbspace.Requirement from China mobile (CMCC), CMCC use lots of temp table in the following 2 ways:Create temp table ... with no log; select * from tab into temp tabname ...
    over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

    Consolidate free space across entire chunk or dbspace

    I suggest a repack-like tool which consolidates free space in an entire chunk or dbspace in order to get few, big enough, free spaces to use efficiently. Being able to do so online and with little blocking is desirable
    over 13 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

    Shareable Subflows between assistants

    Sharing subflows allows assistants to function modularly, essentially exposing the action API to a user building an action.
    over 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

    allow distributed queries when BLOBs involved

    When trying to reference a table which contains a BLOB data type using syntax ddbb@dbservername:table, the following error is returned: error 9270: Type (informix.blob) is unsupported in distributed queries.
    almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    For sysprocplan add ability to view the plan

    For sysprocplan add ability to view the plan. This would allow more visibility into how plans change when they do change.
    almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

    Allow online index builds of functional indexes

    The fact that we can't build functional indexes online effectively precludes them from use - or at least, makes it very difficult, as we can't do offline builds without an outage - which is expensive
    12 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Add command to move data from a chunk to remove it

    Add a command , at onspaces or sql task() , to force free a chunk, moving the data to another chunks with available space at same dbspace.With that will allow to exclude the cleared chunk from the dbspace.
    about 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

    Get Mail Attachment from Get all emails

    Whenever we fetch the emails from the outlook Get all emails connectors shows Boolean output for Attachment present or not but there is no option to download the attachment. If this feature is available it will be easy to fetch attachment and work...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration

    Embedded agent web chat static content translation

    1. Why is it useful? Adding a static content translation feature would significantly improve the accessibility and usability of the chat experience for global audiences. It ensures consistent multilingual experiences across both static and dynamic...
    12 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Needs more information

    Back Navigation with Data Persistence on Multi‑Step Flow Form

    The system shall provide a Back button on Flow Form 2 that allows users to navigate back to the previous form (Form 1). When the user clicks the Back button on Form 2, the application shall return the user to Form 1. All data previously entered on...
    6 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Functionality already exists

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