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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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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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ADDI should support CA-Jobtrac scheduler report

The customer has used only CA's Jobtrac scheduler and have tons of reports that needs to be included in the analysis of the mainframe applications.
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Remove limitation on TEXT and CLOB datatype to have the same functionality as LVARCHAR

Remove limitation on TEXT and CLOB datatype to have the same functionality as LVARCHAR.
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Enable READ ONLY access to DB2 from Informix using DRDA protocol

This is request for Wal-Mart , we have 100s of Informix gateway manager installed (DRDA) to join quries Informix and DB2 database.
over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Implement st_distance_sphere funtion

As part of the migration from MySQL to Informix, using Spatial Datablade, the lack of this functions may stop or delay the migration from MySQL to Informix databases.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Planned for future release

MS Sharepoint tools to create list item should be able to create fields for the list item

When we automate creating a listitem using Create a list item skill in Watson orchestrate , there is no option to create the listItem fields. However if user has to then login to sharepoint and manually create fields in the listitem, it seems of l...
over 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Needs more information

Add MPP/DPF/XPS Clustering to Informix

DB2 has MPP/DPF, Oracle has RAC, Sybase has Cluster Edition. Informix used to have XPS, where is the ability to scale out Informix?
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

suppress fast repeating event from running alarmprogram for each event

Recently we had an event "storm" due to many events "Lock table overflow - user id 12396, session id 716985". Due to this the alarmprogram was executed little more than 97000 in a short time. I am aware of the mechanism that is in the alarmprogram...
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Tenant-selection page showing the excessive whitespace between 1312 and 1583px

The width of the login_panel_image doesn't stretch out all the way to the right-end of the tenant selection page (https://<dl or cio>/landing/accounts). The excessive whitespace shows up between 1322px and 1583px for both CIO and DL domains....
over 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Is a defect

Add support for an asynchronous/non-blocking Java API

Add support for an asynchronous/non-blocking Java API called Reactive Relational Database Connectivity (R2DBC) (https://r2dbc.io/). The R2DBC driver list includes several DBMS, but not Informix. Customer case: In Huge systems with lots of users se...
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

The certification authority is not recognized by the virtual machine of the dialog on Watson Assistant

Customer makes a call to Watson assistant which makes a return (webhook) from its dialogs, but the customer certification authority is not recognized by the virtual machine of the dialog. This involves setting up a mechanism to add client CAs to t...
almost 3 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration