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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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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Informix

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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
1 day 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
1 day ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

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.
1 day ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

Request support for Windows 2025

Add support for Windows 2025
3 days ago in Informix / Informix Client Products / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Need to revisit timestemp for incremental backup

our database backup size approaches 17 TB on a very busy system. When we attempt to take a Level 1 backup with ontape, the database engine throws an exception indicating that the backup is too old. As a result, we are forced to take a Level 0 back...
4 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

RSS_FLOW_CONTROL will be managed for each RSS separatly

Currently RSS_FLOW_CONTROL parameter will be used for all RSS at the same time but we want to use this for 1 RSS only .
10 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

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...
10 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Have a Event alarm ID for allocating an new virtual shared memory segment

Add a EVENT_CLASS value for event of Server's dynamically allocating an new virtual shared memory segment
18 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Introduce Named Variables on Informix .NET Core

Named variables is a feature that is widely used by developers (specially those who use .NET Technologies) where they nominate a parameter, set him some value and them execute a SQL Statement passing the named variable as a filter.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Make Informix .NET Core work with DRDA Protocol

The main idea of this request is: today Informix .NET Core needs ODBC from OS. Using DRDA protocol, Informix .NET Core doesn't has any ODBC dependency, which makes easy the development for applications specially when these applications were built ...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration