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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    Compatibility of SDS_ALTERNATE and logged SBSPACE

    Our Standard Informix Cluster consists of Primary, SDS and RSS Server. While testing Failover with broken Network, we recognized that it is possible to get two Primarys when DRAUTO = 3 is set and the Network Connection of the Primary is interrupte...
    5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Support local authentication method to manage credentials on Informix using Hashicorp Vault

    Customers who are using local authentication for Informix need a way to utilize the password management features for Hashicorp Vault https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/secrets/databases/db2
    about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Add function LISTAGG like DB2 and Oracle

    Every query which need to group by and concat few columns is impossible with informix. For example for this SQL : select t.tabname, c.constrname ,k.checktext, k.seqno from sysconstraints c, systables t , outer syschecks k where t.tabname = 'my...
    over 5 years ago in Informix 1 Not under consideration

    Add ability to print deadlock information

    Add ability to print deadlock infomation to the online.log. This should be possible to enable at the session level so if this is enabled for a session then if the session is involved as part of a deadlock the information will be written to the onl...
    about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Use of Adobe Flash in OAT is a security problem, please migrate to HTML5

    OAT makes heavy use of Adobe Flash. Flash is an increasing security problem and not supported on all client platforms. HTML 5 is an alternative and should be used instead.
    almost 10 years ago in Informix 1 Not under consideration

    Restore of chunks of one dbspace in parallel

    In a case of an onbar restore and depending on the onconfig configuration of BAR_MAX_RESTORE setting a parallel restore of dbspaces is possible. In the case that one of the dbspaces have lots of chunks, all of these chunks will be restored sequent...
    over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Add command to move data from a chunk to remove it

    Add a command , at onspaces or sql task() , to force free a chunk, moving the data to another chunks with available space at same dbspace.With that will allow to exclude the cleared chunk from the dbspace.
    over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

    Free automatically allocated lock memory

    Since Lock resource (memory) would be automatically allocated when Informix engine defect that it's not enough. But these memory will be existing forever once allocate, unless restart Informix engine. Could these automatically allocated memory cou...
    almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    Only in-memory Temp table

    Temporary table only cached in the memory, it does not to write into the temp dbspace.Requirement from China mobile (CMCC), CMCC use lots of temp table in the following 2 ways:Create temp table ... with no log; select * from tab into temp tabname ...
    over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

    Consolidate free space across entire chunk or dbspace

    I suggest a repack-like tool which consolidates free space in an entire chunk or dbspace in order to get few, big enough, free spaces to use efficiently. Being able to do so online and with little blocking is desirable
    over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

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