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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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Add Subscription Level Replication Statistics to the Product Functionality

In case of high QReplication workload its sometimes necessary to determine the causing table / subscription of this workload fast and efficient for Problem determination . Currently workload Statistics are implemented at an Queue level (in Table I...

Adding support in Q Apply for Db2 data lake target tables and supporting CCD tables in Db2 Data Lake

Data lakes have become an indispensable part of today's database landscape, particularly they avoid vendor lock-in; key concepts here include open data and open table formats. One challenge in managing data lake tables in a Db2 is detecting change...

Implicit and automatic reconnect to databases

Implicit and automatic reconnect to database in case of connectivity Failure(s) , aka cluster switch , database restart etc . Q-Replication scenarios: 1) Q-Replication DB2 z/OS > Db2 LUW2) Q-Replication DB2 z/OS > Oracle Q-REP apply process ...
5 months ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability 0 Submitted

Informix - Adjusting Edition Limits

With the introduction of IDS 15, storage options within an instance have become virtually unlimited. Fortunately, this has also removed several restrictions that, over the years, led to unnecessary administrative effort across different editions. ...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Under review

SQL command to set environment variable, not just some onconfig parameters

Motivation: In order for some queries to work, I had to remember to set some environment variables at the shell level. In my case: PSORT_NPROCS PSORT_DBTEMP DBDATE I know I can use "set environment" for a limited number of onconfig paramet...
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Under review

Identify major LOG captures.

We frequently experience delays in QREP Capture readings on our peak processing days without any apparent monster transactions. Transactions and rows continue to be processed, but at a slower rate than the actual log reads. In these cases, we have...

Request official support for monitoring Informix with Datadog products

Request the ability to monitor Informix using Datadog products as customer relies on Datadog as their central monitoring platform and would prefer to consolidate all activities there
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Future consideration

Make scroll cursors more consistent when lists/collections are involved

This RFE is for removing the protection to disable collection types in scroll cursor at the prepare phase, and fail only at runtime if the cursor retrieves a row greater than row limit.
6 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

Informix v15 PDF Manuals

PDF Manuals are needed for offline use.
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

Multi-Vector Functionality

Multi-Vector Database functionality (like Milvus). May be an additional functionality like time-series or as datablade like geospatial and text-search.
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Under review