IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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    Add bitmap indexes

    Add persisted bitmap indexes similar to Oracle. Same use case as for Oracle.
    over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Clone a database

    I routinely need to clone a Production database (not the whole instance) onto another instance on another machine. Formerly, I used onunload to do this, and worked like a charm. However, onunload does not work with blobs, and after we incorporated...
    over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Functionality already exists

    Allow the specification of the isolation mode at the statement level

    The programmer should be able to specify the isolation mode (committed read, dirty read, serializable etc.) at the statement level.I don't have a definitive idea on how to specify this in terms of syntax. It could be in a "clean" way like: SELECT ...
    about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Option to get a warning if strings are truncated during an insert

    There should be an option to get a warning if strings are truncated during an insert. Especially this warning is needed when a string is inserted using the functionality of encyption. If the encrypted string is truncated during insertion, the reco...
    over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Planned for future release

    Allow defining rolling container windows defined on user defined calendars

    Currently time series rolling window containers can only be defined to use a predetermined set of calendars to define the number of time points included in each window. Those are: day, week, month, and year. There is a need for more flexibility. T...
    almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Informix ER: Increase maximum allowed replicates

    Our customer uses Enterprise Replication with Informix Server, spanning 530 databases, within 60 instances. We use 11.70 GE. We have hit the maximum limitation of 32746 replicates in the ER domain and it's not enough. We even had to decrease count...
    almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Add support for system versioned tables

    This feature is about having native support to version data within the table. The application will always be able to access the most current data, however through pseudo columns or via other means older version of the data is available. This featu...
    over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

    Allow MAX_PDQPRIORITY to be configurable per user.

    We want to Informix to be able to use PDQ but we would not want 3rd party logins to be able to use PDQ and impact processing. The existing onconfig parmeter should be a default is it is not defined for the user.
    over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    Add constant to centralized Key of ER Consolidation Model

    We want to consolidate the data from our stores to one centralized server, but we can't modify the existing tables. Each store is identical. We need the consolidated model to have an additional value in the unique key of the centralized server of ...
    over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    MSG_DATE format should follow $DBDATE if defined

    Several customers would like the format of the date written to online.log when we have the MSG_DATE parameter defined/activated to follow the format of DBDATE.Currently it seems to follow the American standard (MONTH / DAY / YEAR2).
    about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

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