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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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Informix Server

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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...
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Under review

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

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
5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Under review

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

Informix V15 PDF Manuals

PDF Manuals are needed for offline use.
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Under review

Informix v15 PDF Manuals

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

Request support for Windows 2025

Add support for Windows 2025
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products / Informix Server 1 Under review

XPS provides a dot notation for COSERVERS, this is blocked under IDS which means a change from XPS to IDS requires a complete application layer rebuild

Migrating from a long time out-of-support XPS system to V14 requires all the <INFORMIXSERVER>.<COSERVER> notation to be change to <INFORMIXSERVER><COSERVER> as the dot notation is not supported under IDS. As XPS is long tim...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 5 Under review

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

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...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Under review