IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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    Unload to file should have option that prevents over writing of an existing file

    A customer writes some SQL that captures the pre-data to an unload file and then does the updates/deletes etc. If the SQL is successful and inadvertently run again the initial pre-data will be lost.
    over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Future consideration

    Improve the VPCACHE memory manage

    The VPCACHE resource having the option to be DYNAMIC or STATIC. At the documentation, the DYNAMIC option says: " You can set the mode to DYNAMIC to allow the size of each private memory cache to increase or decrease automatically based on the work...
    8 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

    LDAP Authenication for HQ

    Allow the option to use LDAP for HQ Authentication. Build the user name in HQ but allow it to use domain authentication. This would also allow HQ to write backups to mapped drives. See Support Case TS007408895 for further details.
    almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

    Add AWS RDS for Db2 as a target database for Data Gate on Cloud

    Data Gate on cloud available at AWS only syncronize data for Db2 z/OS to a Db2 Warehouse SaaS. The idea is to add AWS RDS Db2 as an target database.
    almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 1 Not under consideration

    Let GUI create ultra large instance

    At the present time CP4D GUI only allow to create datagate instances with maximum of 32CPU + 32Gi of RAM. 32Gi may be insuffisant in case of large workload. If we need to go further we need to first create instance and then upgrade custom ressourc...
    4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

    A tool to copy statistics between environments

    A tool to copy statistics between environments, currently this has to be done manually in an unsupported way. This would also allow refreshing statistics on a copy of the environment without needing to refresh the schema e.g . nightly copies. Also...
    almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    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

    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

    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

    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

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