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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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Add multicluster and/or LWS remote cluster support to common LSF commands

Provide a uniform and/or consistent means/interface for users to use LSF commands to interact with remote clusters. Add remote cluster support to LSF commands commands. Specifically for LWS, recommend to embed "lsf command structure" within existi...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 0 Planned for future release

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 ...
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Support TimeSeries Data Type on Informix .NET Core

Microsoft .NET Core is the 5th Programming Language around the world. We have several projects where we gonna use Informix Time Series with C# language. Would be great if Informix .NET Core support timeseries data type.
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

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...
8 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

Include Push Data APIs (like Informix JDBC APIs) on Informix .NET Core

Microsoft .NET framework is widely used over the world to build commercial applications. This request is to include APIs on Informix .NET Core make it able to work with Informix ER Push Data and Informix Smart Triggers.
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Add migrations feature on Informix .NET Core

In real world projects, data models change as features get implemented: new entities or properties are added and removed, and database schemas need to be changed accordingly to be kept in sync with the application. The migrations feature in EF Cor...
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Resource Reservation Qualification

Provide a job attribute indicating whether a job qualifies for resource reservation (for example, when resource reservation is enabled for the queue). This will allow the customer plug-in to identify eligible jobs and reserve the required resour...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Under review

Add an option to `bjobs` to list pending jobs in their Fairshare scheduling dispatch order

the statement on https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-lsf/10.1.0?topic=bjobs-description#bjobs_output__title__2, that "Pending jobs are displayed in the order in which they are considered for dispatch", does not apply in the case of Fairshare sche...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Simulation & Prediction 0 Under review
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Informix should be able to change owner on tables and any other objects

If user=informix creates all database and all tables, then programmer creates table but user=informix cannot change it. Only drop it.
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Planned for future release

A user with DBA privilege should be able to change the owner of a table without need to recreate it.

When a table needs to have a different owner, it is not possible to change it without recreating such object. It is to mention that Informix 8.21 allowed the change of the owner of the table with the RENAME TABLE statement. This is very usefull wh...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Planned for future release