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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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New National Language Support data type with variable size greater then 255 bytes.

The current NVARCHAR data type supports maximum of 255 bytes. In case of use UTF-8 it's not sufficient becuase it means to store about 127 UTF-8 characters.
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Timeseries support more than 1 concurrent write per container/chunk.

Timeseries support more than 1 concurrent write per container/chunk.Heard this was an issues in 2017 or earlier, have not heard it has been fixed.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Timeseries support compression

To compete with KDB.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add Block Indexes to informix

Add Block Indexes to informix similar to DB2 MDC Tables and Postgres BRIN Indexes.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Searching for data assets using synonyms

Suppose you assign only one representative business term to a data asset, and you have set up multiple synonyms for that business term. In this case, it would be useful to be able to search data assets for synonymous terms as well. If this cou...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

To allow re adding the member in the grouping through addPartyGroupingAssociation service.

addPartyGroupingAssociation service does not allow to add the party back to the grouping if the party was earlier part of the grouping and the grouping association has been end dated
over 4 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Unify the CASE package version number with CP4D refresh version number

We have too many version number in CP4D and its services. For example, CASE package version, Operator version, Operand version and Service version. Operator and operand versions https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=planning-ope...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Enable REORG REBALANCE option in Object Comparison

At option 5 on OC comparison panel we can customize utility options, including for REORG tablespaces. However option REBALANCE is grayed out not allowing DBAs to select that option for partition-by-range tablespaces.
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Excel Export node with append option

Currently, we need to generate an Excel file with historical data processed periodically with a Modeler stream as a batch execution. The Excel file should append the data each time, not overwriting. The node can write an existing file, but always ...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Global Timestamp

Currently in OpenPages there is only one timestamp for sign-off. I work at a global Japanese Bank and the timestamp is configured for the Tokyo Time zone. This means that if someone in New York Signs-off on a workpaper after lunch, it will show a ...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Infrastructure/Conformance 1 Not under consideration