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Informix latest version of 14.10 and 15.0 on OS: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS (Noble Numbat)'

Hi Informix Team, We can see at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1079427 , that Informix Server 14.10 and 15.x is not released for Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS (Noble Numbat). The current supported Ubuntu 22.04 LTS will EOS in June 2027 . Thank you ve...
5 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Detailed dataset flow diagram

ADDI or WCA4Z Understand need more detailed dataset flow diagram and linking to source feature to win customer.What customer expected to ADDI was that in addition to visualizations like the attached detailed dataflow diagram with information of pr...

Have an new TEMP_TABLE_SIZE = [LARGE|SMALL] onconfig and session parameter

It appears that LARGE temp tables are not best practice, as these are slower than SMALL temp tables. It would be nice to avoid application code changes because of this Informix behavior, and force programmers to use CREATE SMALL TEMP TABLE ... All...
23 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Enable WCA4Z to install and operate without GPU requirements for non-LLM use cases and troubleshooting scenarios.

WCA4Z currently has a hard dependency on GPU availability. The Watsonxaiifm component fails to install when GPUs are not present, which subsequently prevents a complete installation of WCABase and WCA4Z. GPU resources represent a substantial infra...
26 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

ADDI Job Flow: Step/PROC Node Click Should Navigate to Source Code Like Job Name Does

In ADDI, when testing Job Flow visualization, clicking the Job Name at the top correctly opens the corresponding JCL source. However, when clicking on a Step name or PROC name within the Job Flow diagram, ADDI does not bring up the associated code...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

Allow rolling upgrade of an online cluster to a different major version.

This would allow upgrading to a different major version as a rolling upgrade. This reduces risk by only upgrading some secondaries allowing failover to revert to the previous version with minimal impact. New catalog fields would be auto-populated ...
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Allow rolling upgrade of an online cluster to non-consecutive fix packs with catalog changes.

This would allow skipping fixpacks even with catalog changes.This reduces risk by only upgrading some secondaries allowing failover to revert to the previous version with minimal impact.
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Allow rolling upgrade of an online cluster to non-consecutive fix packs when no catalog changes.

Allow skipping fixpacks and still doing a rolling upgrade when there are catalog changes. This reduces risk by only upgrading some secondaries allowing failover to revert to the previous version with minimal impact. New catalog fields would be aut...
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

The PL/I macro names should be referable in WCA4Z Understand

When preprocessing PL/I source code in WCA4Z Understand(ADDI), macros are visualized in their expanded state, which makes it impossible to identify the original macro names in Application Discovery (AD)Analyze Client. To improve usability for appl...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Extend watsonx Code Assistant for Z – Optimize to support PL/I performance analysis and optimization.

Many enterprise z/OS customers still run important workloads in PL/I, especially in banking and insurance. Today Optimize works well for COBOL, but PL/I is not supported, so teams still rely on manual analysis or a few experienced PL/I experts to ...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 9 Under review