IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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    Better documentation on syscdr database

    One might find it hard to understand and troubleshoot ER without proper knowledge and/or documentation. We should have better and detailed documentation about the syscdr database and its tables and views.
    over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Allow External Backup on HDR Secondary

    It should be possible to run external backups on HDR Secondary (beneath unbar/ontape backups). Probably the necessary enhancement is just to implement onmode -c block/unblock on HDR secondaries (update reserved pages).
    about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Make onconfig parameter SSL_KEYSTORE_LABEL dynamically updatable.

    Make onconfig parameter SSL_KEYSTORE_LABEL dynamically updatable. The equivalant has already been made dynamically updatable in DB2 - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=1152-manageability-enhancements
    over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Table level restore

    To enhance functionality of ontape/onbar utility to enable table level restore.
    over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

    Add Informix/onbar in the list of VEEAM Enterprise Backup Solution supported platforms

    VEEAM is a fast growing Enterprise Backup solution. As of today, Informix is not part of VEEAM's supported DBMS, but should be supported before decision makers choose other DBMS platforms.
    over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Allow "group commit" as other RDBMS

    For high use OLTP systems, there can be a lot of I/O pressure on the logical log due to intense rate of logical log buffer flushing (most customer don't ant data loss so they use UNBUFFERED LOG). Setting BUFFERED LOG at session level would hardly ...
    almost 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Future consideration

    Encrypting and Decrypting Stored Procedures

    Would like Informix to have feature of encrypt the source code for a stored procedure and function.
    almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Under review

    Online.log could also print session detail of additional memory segment allocation

    In high usage OLTP systems, it is a hard work to identify which session(s) is(are) demanding too much memory from the Informix engine.A good thing for us to help to identify abnormal programs execution/behaviour would be to print session details (...
    about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Needs more information

    Improve performance of L1/L2 backups

    Current, for L1 (or L2) backups we need to read all pages. This is highly inefficient and there are alternatives for implementing this.In the PMR we've been told this matches old FEA idsdb00010525. In this the proposed solution was to maintain a t...
    about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    IF NOT EXISTS should not be saved as part of stored routine source

    When creating a stored procedure or function with the IF NOT EXISTS optional clause included, the option text is currently included in the saved source code for the procedure. This is not true of any other database object created with the IF NOT E...
    over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

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