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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    Option to change Field type from Simple String to Large Text

    We are facing the challenge that after implementation, it is found out that simple string fields do not allow enough characters to be added and therefore we need to change the field into a large text field.This is currently only possible by creati...
    3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Future consideration

    Allow for custom auroralogging.properties file to define custom loggers that aren't overwritten by upgrades/fix packs/interim fixes

    When implementing custom loggers we have to place these in the auroralogging.properties file. This works great until the file gets re-created during the installation of upgrades, fix packs or interim fixes. We would like a custom auroralogging.pro...
    4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Future consideration
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    Informix should be able to change owner on tables and any other objects

    If user=informix creates all database and all tables, then programmer creates table but user=informix cannot change it. Only drop it.
    over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    Reread SSL Keystore while Informix is running

    To renewing the SSL Keystore Files it is neccesary to restart the whole DB Engine / Connection Manager, when the keystore Files have been changed. A "reread keystore" Function would be very helpfull, and would save a lot of Time and reduce downtim...
    6 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    Add SQL-statement COMMENT ON as in Oracle or PostgreSQL

    For some tables or columns it would be helpful to describe what the table/column is used for since the names are not always self-explanatory. Although COMMENT ON is not part of standard SQL it would be helpful to have such a statement. The DOCUMEN...
    over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 6 Future consideration

    Improve Stored Procedures features

    We are trying to increase the usage of SP in our system environment. Migrating business code from 4GL to the database.But this process becomes very painful for our developers since the support for SPL is limited. Mainly the inexistence of a native...
    almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    Ability to disable Notifications for Bulk Update of Fields and Bulk Workflow Actions

    When users use the Bulk Udate feature from a Grid view, or they complete Workflows in Bulk from a Grid view, the system shows them the result of the operation directly in the UI. At the same time an e-mail notification is triggered to the user. Th...
    almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

    Implement LIMIT clause in DELETE Statement

    Expand DELETE syntax implementing LIMIT clause and maybe also ORDER BY. Delete syntax can be like: DELETE [FROM] tbl_name [WHERE where_condition ] [ORDER BY ...] [LIMIT row_count ] This limit + order by syntax is already implemented in other major...
    over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

    Allow Bufferpool Min_lru_dirty and Max_lru_dirty Threshold values to be altered dynamically

    onparams -b can be used to add a new bufferpool and AUTO_LRU_TUNING are available on informix server but first only adds a bufferpool of a new page size and the latter only kicks in if some foreground writes occur on a server which ideally is neve...
    almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Future consideration

    Appendable External Tables

    Need an option to open/create an external table that appends to the file(s) defined on the table on insert rather than overwriting the file(s).
    over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

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