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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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  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.

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Document Data flow and transformations when using synch\sort.

During a recent Discovery workshop for Watsonx code assistant for Z, customer is looking to modernize one of their monolith applications Power One, requested the following idea be logged as an RFE (request for enhancement) as this will benefit the...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Not under consideration

Review code comments, when analyzing orphaned code.

During a recent Discovery workshop for Watsonx code assistant for Z, customer is looking to modernize one of their monolith applications Power One, requested the following idea be logged as an RFE (request for enhancement) as this will benefit the...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Not under consideration

Add optional WHERE condition to MERGE statement

Oracle supports an optional WHERE condition for insert/update/delete operations when using MERGE on the source or target table This could be handy in some situations to skip some rows if the condition is not true.
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow dynamic HTML inside web chat

Currently you can only display static HTML when introduced into the "Assistant says" tab. I would like to be able to embed JS scripts to be able to display interactive plots (like the ones done with plotly)
almost 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Not under consideration

Do not lock table when entering alter table menu in isql/dbaccess tools

After entering alter table menu and selecting the table , the table will lock in exclusive mode until the opertion finish. If this table is an online trade table , this behaviour is very dangerous.So it should not lock table until user commit the ...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

To be able to digress from a ongoing skill flow, finish the digressed task and come back to the original skill flows

WxO usecase involves navigating to an external link within the flow and perform certain tasks post navigation and return back to the original flow to continue with the remaining skills
almost 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Functionality already exists

Informix HTML datatype support across distributed queries

The type of HTML is not widely supported by other APIs other than WebDatablade. Therefore, when a query is made within a distributed query system, where user is inside database db1, and query with html column is made for database db2, below error ...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Extendable smartblob/blob chunks

Since 11.70 chunks can be made extendable.12.10 introduced the physical log dbspace – which is also extendable.But smartblob/blob chunks cannot be expanded with the sysadmin task:EXECUTE FUNCTION task("modify chunk extend", …)Since Fragment Le...
almost 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Cobol to Java Transformation - Suppress Missing Copybook Error Message when Copybooks are not Required.

When preparing the Cobol to Java transformation, an Exclamation error message may be displayed indicating that copybooks are missing. “COBOL transformation preparation completed. Some copybooks were not found, potentially affecting the transformat...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Add option to dbschema command to see views

Currently, you have to do a system table query to see existing views. Please add an option (possibly -v) to dbschema to display views.
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration