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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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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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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Support of Informix 14.10 as data source

At the moment, Cognos BI 10.2.2 does not fully support Informix 14.10 as data source, which leads to problems and abortions when running reports: Obviously, Cognos query engine generates SQL code, which cannot be executed within Informix 14.10. Th...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

New Enhancements for InformixHQ tool

Latest InformixHQ version released along with Informix 14 database server do not have enough rich features to investigate the database server related some commonly used issues to drill down and identify the issues quickly and easily. The suggested...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 4 Delivered

32-bit build of Informix Client SDK 4.50 for Linux

With the release of Informix Client SDK 4.50, the 32-bit build for Linux was dropped. We are still generating 32-bit binaries, ESQL/C, for use with Informix. We need a 32-bit build of Client SDK 4.50 for Linux.
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 2 Delivered

Fix FLOAT error in Informix HQ

Hello Team, I am seeing following error when I click on UI->System Reports-> SQL with the Most Buffer Activity "Value will not fit in a FLOAT." Error occurs for the following System reports too: SQL with the Most Buffer Activity SQL with the...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Encryption for Informix backup.

Informix 12.10 fc8 has file level encryption available in the database. However, from my understanding if you do a backup, this file in not encrypted. Can we have a method to perform a databack that keeps the encryption in the backup data.
almost 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Add COALESCE function

Add a COALESCE function to Informix just like DB and many other databases have it.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Delivered

Informix support for Windows Server 2019

Hi, in Germany we have some big ESA customers like Unify Software and Solutions who purchase at roughly 600k licenses per year. This week they and our ESA VAD Bytec both asked when we will have support for Win 2019 in place. At Unify this determin...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Delivered

Informix AIO tunig options in the way kernel resources are allocated (aio-nr).

When you bring up a instance of the Informix Server which uses KAIO the instance goes out and takes 50% of the aio-nr resources from what I have been able find. then when a second instance comes up it took like 75% of the resources left and then a...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Delivered

Avoid informix instance restart after parameter DBCREATE_PERMISSION being changed.

Informix instance need to be restart once parameter DBCREATE_PERMISSION being changed. It will cause the downtime/business interruption every time user being add/remove. Request avoiding Informix instance restart after DBCREATE_PERMISSION paramete...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

IBM Informix 4GL 7.51.xC1 certification on RedHat Linux version 7 and 7.1

Customer is requesting that we certify IBM Informix Tools (4GL & SQL) on RedHat Linux version 7.1.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Delivered