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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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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 for ON DELETE SET NULL and ON UPDATE CASCADE clauses in FOREIGN KEY statements

A customer wanted to use a construction like ALTER TABLE detail_table ADD CONSTRAINT FOREIGN KEY (link_column) REFERENCES master_table ON DELETE SET NULL; so that referencing values would be updated to NULL automatically if a parent row was delete...
8 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Informix v15 PDF Manuals

PDF Manuals are needed for offline use.
about 15 hours ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Informix V15 PDF Manuals

PDF Manuals are needed for offline use.
about 15 hours ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Support DESC keyword for describing schema objects

Simple request: Support the DESC keyword commonly used by other databases as a synonym for the wordy 'INFO COLUMNS FOR'. This will help new users to Informix as well as being less to type for everybody else.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

In 4GL, 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
20 days ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

Support local authentication method to manage credentials on DB2 using Hashicorp Vault

Customers who are using local authentication for Informix need a way to utilize the password management features for Hashicorp Vault https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/secrets/databases/db2
2 months ago in Db2 / Security 0 Submitted

Support local authentication method to manage credentials on Informix using Hashicorp Vault

Customers who are using local authentication for Informix need a way to utilize the password management features for Hashicorp Vault https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/secrets/databases/db2
2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Unable to see fully qualified name in a trigger for seme instance

we have created as view using fully qualified name but while getting schema it is not showing complete DB address. scenario is given below. create table test_table ( col1 int, col2 varchar(20),col3 datetime year to second default current year to s...
7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Make range fragmentation work on high-write systems

Our application is INCREDIBLY write-heavy with highly transient data. Frankly, it doesn't even belong in Informix at all; it ought to be in something like MongoDB or even an in-memory DB. [I'm not kidding: 75-90K inserts per minute, involving BYTE...
8 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

informix can restrict ip/host to connect with DB .

currently we have not option in Informix DB to restrict ip or any host to connect with DB or instance, i think ibm need to add this facility in new version.
12 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted