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.

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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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    In 4GL, provide ability to read/write to text files in the local file system

    Provide ability directly in 4GL to read and/or write data to plain text files, located on the programs local file system.
    about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

    Add Native 4GL support for build/parse of JSON and XML formatted data

    Add ability directly in 4GL to build and parse files/objects in: JSON format XML format
    about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Planned for future release

    In 4GL, Add support for non-Informix Databases

    Add ability to: Connect to multiple databases simultaneously Connect to non-Informix Databases, such as Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MySQL, etc
    about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

    Add Web Services support directly in 4GL language

    Provide ability directly in 4GL for a Web Services Interface, both as a client of external services, AND as a provider of services. Support SOAP and REST protocols, as well as SFTP/FTP
    about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Under review

    Enhance 4GL Language to offer a GUI Interface, for both WIndows, MAC, Linux X and Browset

    Enhance the Forms-based User Interface to support a Graphical interface consistent with current technologies offered by Microsoft Windows, MAC OS, Linux X, and Web Browsers.
    about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

    SERVERNUM limitation need to increase

    As you know, now servers are more powerful and can take more load, also there is not issue for storage and we can use SAN for this purpose so it is time to increase SERVERNUM limitation, currently we can only create 256 instances on one server . W...
    about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    SSO (Single Sign-On) for ODBC connections via ActiveDirectory authentication

    The current configuration of a SSO (Single Sign-On) authentication for a Windows workstation is based on GSSCSM, for which support will be discontinued in future Informix releases and is very complex and error-prone. Alternatively, ODBC connection...
    about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Under review

    ER should have an option to replicate tables between different databases

    Currently there is not an option in ER that would allows us to replicate a table from database A to database B. You must use the same database. There are real life situations where you need to replicate a table to a differente server/instance/data...
    almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Needs more information

    Allow column ALIAS in HAVING clause

    Just recently while working on a customer we were able to speedup a very slow query by using the recently introduced OLAP functions. The query looks like this: SELECT col1, col2, col3, col4, rank() over (partition by col1, col2 order by col4 desc)...
    over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Allow triggers install/updates without taking an outage for the box

    Currently to install new triggers on a table or update triggers on a table requires outage for the box which impacts our end user customer. Our operations are 24X7X365 and don't have any outage window to work with.
    over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Functionality already exists

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