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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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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.

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log_rotate sysadmin job for CONSOLE, PSM_ACT_LOG, PSM_DEBUG_LOG

There is a sysadmin job for rotation of logfiles for MSG_PATH, BAR_ACT_LOG and BAR_DEBUG_LOG.But for CONSOLE, PSM_ACT_LOG and PSM_DEBUG_LOG these sysadmin tasks are not configured/prepared in $INFORMIXDIR/etc/sysadmin/sch_tasks.sql
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Support plugins in informixHQ

Plugins have been an important feature of OAT, that allowed to implement your own individual neccecary administration tasks. Without this feature one would have to write another toolset. This is not desireable. It should be possible to do (nearly)...
over 7 years ago in Informix 1 Not under consideration

Make changes in the Informix backup process using onbar

Hi,i am using onbar utility to take backup of 4TB database using 12 threads and it took 8-9 hours for complete 0 level . i feel IBM needs to make changes in the Informix backup process. Whenever backup of a dbspace is in progress and if that dbspa...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

identify special columns with same meaning easily and modify data type

Use case: We want find columns with same meaning distributed over several tables easily either to modify the data type or find out the affected columns/tables only. For example there are price/money and other columns, each with an arbitrary column...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Context based slicing for given variable for both include and working storage  and bulk slicing for these.

This is a functionality already in consideration by product management for Refactoring Assistant.
over 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Automatic Statistics table exclusion list

We have a 3 billion row table that we would like to remove from AUS selection and manually run statistics as it is failing due to exhausting the 48Gb of sort disk
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Refactor Assistant: Not cleaning up dead code while slicing the code block for service / new program creation

Case number TS015819461 Please find the recommendation for Refactor Assistant on cleaning up dead code while slicing the code block for service / new program creation. Please open a case as Mark requested to improve RA tool capability. #5 – Refact...
over 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Don't jump to page 1 of intent list after editing an intent (Classic Watson Assistant)

When I edit an intent on page 3 of the intent list, then return to the intent list, I want to remain on page 3 of the intent list, not jump back to page 1. This change would make it a lot quicker to work on a lot of intents.
over 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration

Index the content in the background, not when user is searching

At the moment, every time you edit your assistant, then search in the intents/entities/dialog, your content is first indexed, which limits your productivity. Instead, the content indexing should be running in the background even before the search ...
over 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration

Parameter Store that can save values from skill responses and requests.

How does it work: Some kind of string datastore, that is shared between all skills. Skills can optionally pull from this datastore every time they are run, and also save to this data store. These settings can be treated as input for skills in the ...
over 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Not under consideration