IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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    Identify/log slow queries on a busy system

    SQLTrace offers the DBA the tooling required to monitor a user session. However its difficult to monitor heavily used systems. For example one needs to have a buffer large enough to store 90 seconds of SQL queries (small lookup SQL's consume the b...
    over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Different message when transaction time limit reached

    When transaction duration limit is reached the following message occurs in the online log file 08:56:28 sid 11617 - test@server.domain.local - pid 6811 terminated because session transaction duration (60 seconds) has exceeded limit. This session i...
    over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

    Add onconfig parameter to limit TLS ciphers used.

    Add onconfig parameter to limit TLS ciphers used. Perhaps called SSL_CIPHERSPECS Similar to DB2 parameter ssl_cipherspecs https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/10.5?topic=instance-supported-cipher-suites
    over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

    Data Masking in INFORMIX

    Our objective is not to see any sensitive data outside the production systems. As an example here is our real requirement. In a PROD environment, we can see the table data as usual . For data protection purposes, the data of the same table needs t...
    over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

    Improve readahead performance statistic reporting

    Since the improved readahead code was established, onstat -p and the associated SMI tables no longer report all readahead pages nor all usage of those pages so that it is impossible to monitor the efficiency of readahead and so be able to determin...
    over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Enable defined limits on sqltrace

    We would like to see the ability to add limits when enabling sqltrace to limit it to only trace by specific requirements. The basic one, which this alone would make a huge difference would be the ability to list one or more tables and only have it...
    over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Add Query Store functionality to Informix and revert to Last Good Plan

    Add functionality to Informix similar to SQL Server Query Store. SQL and plans are logged to a system database. Also if a plan gets worse then the server can learn and go back to the previous query plan if still valid. This would be helpful when t...
    about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    Make adoption of forest-of-trees indices easier with existing large tables

    Rebuilding an index as a FOT is not supported using "alter fragment on index init". This would be useful to avoid dropping and later re-adding primary keys and referencing foreign keys. Building a FOT index is not possible in parallel. Building a ...
    over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    informix can restrict ip/host to connect with DB .

    currently we have not option in Informix DB to restrict ip or any host to connect with DB or instance, i think ibm need to add this facility in new version.
    about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

    Improvement in the check for high serial values

    I'm trying to check if a serial value has reached its upper limit. I noticed the following unpleasant behaviour. In the sysmaster tables sysptnhdr and sysactptnhdr the currently used serial values are in three fields for the datatypes serial, seri...
    over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

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