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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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Better checkpoint flush statistics

Improve checkpoint flush statistics to show storage performance issues better.
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Alter table that has foreign keys

Abilit to alter tables with foreig keys when referenced tables are opened.
over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Ability to rotate encryption at rest keys on the Engine

Corporate security has requested us to change the EAR keys on demand as they see having the same key as a security risk. We would like to see a feature to change the .sth and .p12 files in an easier manner.
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

14.10.FC6 multiple page sizes for temp dbspaces - intelligent use based on page size.

Intelligent use of temp dbspaces with multiple pages.
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Support LIMIT clause in Common Table Expressions

Using LIMIT clause in a CTE gives a syntax error (with IDS 14.10.FC10) sf@toro (master):~/genero/devel/dbsync/dbsync$ cat x.sql WITH recent_rows AS (SELECT log_ordinal FROM dbsync_log WHERE log_table_name = 'stkitem' ORDER BY log_ordinal DESC LIMI...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Fixing IPA in a 15TB OLTP database or large database

We have a 15 TB size oltp db running in 12.10.FC12. We want to fix the data with pending IPA,however, we cannot use the traditional way due to : - we cannot put the DB offline for hours to fix the data with pending IPA and it will be between 5 to ...
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Show percentage complete on ontape restore

Would like to see the percentage complete when running a restore with ontape. Currently this is only shown when doing an archive.
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Password Validation failed message to include source IP

Enhance online.log message DATETIME SERVERNAME DATETTIME Password Validation for user [USERNAME] failed! to include source ip address to make client indentification easier.
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

'onstat -g mem' should give a complete picture of all memory usage by an Informix instance

Currently 'onstat -g mem' does not include vp cache information and some other memory structures. Similarly syspools view is missing information too.
about 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow DDL changes on a table with full row logging

We want to use CDC to replicate data changes to a different system. We do schema changes once a month, and this complicates things a lot. According to our vendor, this is a limitation for Informix only, other source systems can hande DDL changes t...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration