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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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Request Informix slow queries history

When a user executes a query and the execution time is over x seconds, the SQL text is saved to a database table, along with general statistics like number of times it executes, avg duration, rows retrieve, row sent, etc. This is configured at a d...
22 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Request official support for monitoring Informix with Datadog products

Request the ability to monitor Informix using Datadog products as customer relies on Datadog as their central monitoring platform and would prefer to consolidate all activities there
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Request block level Informix cluster replication

Using block level replication will avoid a lot of SQL apply processing issues. It will lead to significant performance gains by offloading replication workload. Since it is an identical copy of the primary database, it can even fix corrupt block b...
22 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Submitted

Informix - Adjusting Edition Limits

With the introduction of IDS 15, storage options within an instance have become virtually unlimited. Fortunately, this has also removed several restrictions that, over the years, led to unnecessary administrative effort across different editions. ...
9 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

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...
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

execute unload on store procedures

it would be wonderful, to be able to execute unload directly on store procedures, and not have to do an system call, so it we a native unload of data
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Submitted

we would like to raise a feature request for Informix to generate alerts or log messages in the online message log whenever index corruption is detected, as such events are currently not notified or recorded. on Informix secondary servers

In an Informix cluster environment, when the secondary server becomes the primary, any existing corruption on the secondary can be carried over without any notification. This can result in the corruption impacting all DML operations on the new pri...
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Multi-Vector Functionality

Multi-Vector Database functionality (like Milvus). May be an additional functionality like time-series or as datablade like geospatial and text-search.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Under review

Integrate zAI analysis to use SQL-DI

SQL-DI is great at finding commonalties, similarities and possibly predicting values, It might be a good idea to feed zAI collected data into SQL-DI to assess the calculated values and choose and compare access paths chosen with host variable valu...
23 days ago in IBM SQL Data Insights Pro 0 Submitted

Informix v15 PDF Manuals

PDF Manuals are needed for offline use.
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted