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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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Informix 4gl based Datablades

I would like the ability to create database/SPL's using Informix 4GL syntax and features. I know forms and such wouldn't work but I could then leverage legacy into efficient data retrieval processes for for Java and Typescript to access
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Informix HTML datatype support across distributed queries

The type of HTML is not widely supported by other APIs other than WebDatablade. Therefore, when a query is made within a distributed query system, where user is inside database db1, and query with html column is made for database db2, below error ...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Informix HQ - API calls for Groups/Servers administration

Hello Team, I am aware that we can create/add/delete Servers/Groups via InformixHQ UI as admin. Are there API calls that I can use with curl for add/delete/modify Servers/Groups ? This will help in automating end-to-end configuration of Informix H...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

Improve performance on multifact query on an informix database

We make Cognos reports on multifacts creating multifact queries with full outer join. To keep the query execution time low, we need absolutely the enhancement/fix be implemented in the next informix fixpack 12.10. It is unacceptable when the compe...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Onclean to display shmem key and master daemon process id before removing them

Currently the onclean command will immediately locate the process id and shmem key and clean/kill it. Example :[informix@localhost ~]$ onclean -konclean: Cleaning up processes and resources for 'local_shm'...*** WARNING: This will terminate IBM In...
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

LOAD data in batch mode with DATASTUDIO

When you must populate many tables I'd like to load data with datastudio using a batch command from command line
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

Improve L1 backup usability

We would like to use incremental backups with 'onbar'. However this is difficult because we use storagepools and chunks can be added at any time. Once a chunk has been added this forces a L0 backup of at least the dbspace concerned and the root db...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

A tmp database created with the server, analogous to the /tmp file system

In Linux systems (and in all Unix flavors) there is a /tmp directory or better, a /tmp file system. Anyone can create a file or directory in there and, in Linux, it cleared at boot time. (Other flavors use a cron job to clear out unused files.) I ...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow SPL UDR drop/recreate without taking an outage

Currently to change the body of an existing SPL procedure/function, even without changing the signature, requires an outage for applications executing those UDRs.The error returned is "9753: Unable to find User Defined Routine with the given id." ...
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Informix auditing (onaudit) should be able to record feprogram with the "start session" event

In 11.70 (or earlier) IBM enhanced the client tools and server so that a string for the "front end program" is sent to the server. This can be seen in the syssessions table if a compatible Client SDK or IConnect is used. It would be very useful fo...
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration