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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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blimits command functionality improvements

Affected: Administration and all users. Benefits: Provides clients with greater visibility into job availability and limitations, as well as a more dynamic way to allocate resources. Details: blimits functionality needs to be more encompassing. Gr...
6 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Submitted

Have an new TEMP_TABLE_SIZE = [LARGE|SMALL] onconfig and session parameter

It appears that LARGE temp tables are not best practice, as these are slower than SMALL temp tables. It would be nice to avoid application code changes because of this Informix behavior, and force programmers to use CREATE SMALL TEMP TABLE ... All...
13 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Add to the elastic index lsf_job_acct a field that will save memory limit set to a job

Adding this data to elastic will enable us in a simple way to find jobs with memory limit higher than memory requested and to check actual usage of memory
7 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Submitted

LSF installer binary hung during SILENT_INSTALL

when SILENT_INSTALL="Y", is set the installer gets hung on this step. we dont have any option to overwrite by default as a install.config parameter. Logs: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LSF ...
8 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Installation 0 Submitted

Enhancement request to lsfproxyd

We have workfloads from dozen of users which continously generating very high and sustained job submission requests. Whenever they are starting their work, the grid may grind down to a halt or very slow to process any other request. We want a tier...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Future consideration

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 1 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. ...
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

improve bconf .

we have a large lsf cluster which contains many usergroup with fairshares. so every time we want to use bconf to update usershares, it would take 3 mins to complete and during process, the mbatchd is not responding. all detail you can refer to bel...
15 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Submitted

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

Allow rolling upgrade of an online cluster to a different major version.

This would allow upgrading to a different major version as a rolling upgrade. This reduces risk by only upgrading some secondaries allowing failover to revert to the previous version with minimal impact. New catalog fields would be auto-populated ...
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted