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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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Backup/Restore GUI within HQ

One of the least enjoyable tasks is to using the archecker utility. Many times we need to restore just a row and/or rows in a table from an ontape backup. Restoring an entire database is easy from the command line. It would be very helpful if HQ c...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Future consideration

Support LIMIT clause in Common Table Expressions

Using LIMIT clause in a CTE gives a syntax error (with IDS 14.10.FC10) sf@toro (master):~/genero/devel/dbsync/dbsync$ cat x.sql WITH recent_rows AS (SELECT log_ordinal FROM dbsync_log WHERE log_table_name = 'stkitem' ORDER BY log_ordinal DESC LIMI...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Support settings for DEX oidc upstream connector in dashboard

Setting up ADDI/DEX with oidc as upstream connector instead of ldap to support smartcard logon thru external provider is working as excpected. But configuration needs to be done directly in the dex.conf file instead of the dashboard. This means th...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Reclaim free space from chunks

Add a command to reclaim the free space (at the end of the chunk) , reducing the file size. This is very useful for cooked files. Just like SHRINKDATABASE at MS Sql Server, but for chunks....
about 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Workflow to limit agentic catalog from becoming agentic swamp

The Orchestrate Discover Agents catalog allows anyone to create and deploy agents. You could have several agents that all do the same thing (or close to it.). Can we use AI (or other logic) that when a user wants to create/publish a new agent, tha...
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Future consideration

[ADK Documentation] Tutorial to migrate langchain agents to Orchestrate

Having already an agent system defined using langchain and langgraph, alongside some tools for RAG and other stuff with watsonx.ai to run the models. Now, we would like to port them to orchestrate to extend the scope of our project. We were unable...
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

Add Informix to HammerDB benchmarking tool

HammerDB is a leading benchmarking tool to benchmark database performance. This tool enables DBA to verify configuration of the OS/database and assess the impact of any hardware or database configuration changes. HammerDB supports DB2 however ...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

wxO to learn a new language

Welcome, I'm Thamer Al-Anzi. I'm happy to work with you, given your reputation for building and developing ideas and protecting your clients' rights. The idea is an application called the Language Dictionary, used to teach any language in the worl...
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration

Non-PROD version deletions

Non-PROD has 50 version limit. So we have to delete old versions keep pushing new versions to PT. This requires manual version management and deletion. Can the product team provide a way to store more versions or at least provide an automatic mech...
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

ObjectStar to Java code conversion

My customer has a bunch of ObjectStar code running a key business system and wants to migrate that to Java and DB2.
over 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Not under consideration