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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    Allow more than 50 MB for UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH sort operations

    UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH operations that do not use indices for sort are restricted to 50 MB before the system will use temporary space. This limit has remained unchanged for a long time and could be increased quite a lot on a modern system. ...
    almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

    allow distributed queries when BLOBs involved

    When trying to reference a table which contains a BLOB data type using syntax ddbb@dbservername:table, the following error is returned: error 9270: Type (informix.blob) is unsupported in distributed queries.
    about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    HDR shall handle blobs which are located in a blob space

    In contrast to CLR (Continous Log Restore) is HDR not able to replicate blobs which are lying within a blob dbspace. HDR is only able to replicate blobs when they are within a table space. Work-Around: => see addional details #Customers: More o...
    8 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    For sysprocplan add ability to view the plan

    For sysprocplan add ability to view the plan. This would allow more visibility into how plans change when they do change.
    about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

    Full HDR switch between primary and secondary with a single command and without any downtime

    We have 2 servers with 2 HDR instances each. For each cluster we have also 2 connection manager each. On server one there is the primary of cluster 1 and the secondary of cluster 2 On server two there is the primary of cluster 2 and the secondary ...
    almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Identify User created procedure

    As per case opened with IBM 'TS005358731' , currently it is not possible to identify user created function/procedure . so kindly develop a mechanism to identify user and system related function/procedures.
    about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    In 4GL, add support for more modern Data and Object Types

    In 4GL, add support for multiple Industry standard data and Object types: String HashMap (and/or Dictionary) and HashList Data Frame (as in Python) External Record - portable, custom written records that can be shared globally or between function ...
    about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

    In 4GL, ability to formulate and send emails

    Add ability in 4GL to create a formatted email and send to selected recipients.
    about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

    In 4GL forms, add support for a scrollable text field

    In 4GL Forms, ability to define a text field or text area, where the data associated is larger than the allotted area. When the user enters data in the field/area, the data will 'scroll' either left/right or up-down, to allow the user to continue ...
    about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

    In 4GL, Expand Character-Based forms beyond the current 24x76 size

    Expand the current form-size to beyond the current 24x76 size, and allow the form to be scrollable, both left-right and up-down.
    about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Under review

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