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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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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Status Under review
Workspace Informix
Components Informix Server
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 2, 2023

RELATED IDEAS

Support for datetime with timezone

Informix currently lacks an SQL standard datatype to store datetime/timestamp with timezone. This datatype is supported on other databases with different datatypes names:

  • “TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE/LOCAL TIME ZONE” in Oracle

  • “TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE” in PostgreSQL

  • “DATETIMEOFFSET“ in MSSQL

  • “TIMESTAMP” in MariaDB which is time zone aware

The lack of this feature is forcing Informix customers to build their own solutions for the specific use case. Such solutions have to store the timezone component in a separate column and tend to have sub optimal performance when compared to a native solution. From the application side, the application logic is more complex to handle the “custom” solution.

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