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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    Automatic Cluster Failback feature

    We think Informix Cluster should have an automatically failback feature, that could physically priorize our servers (suggesting always that the primary node is in a site, for example).It would be just the same as using a Connection Manager, plus t...
    over 13 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    TBLSpace can not be sized on temporary tables

    Trying to use -ef and -en to size the TBLSpace on a system that use a lot to temp tables but the command fails. This is correct functionaility. Various docs/presentation etc existing stating that better performance can be gained from sizing the TB...
    about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Extend currently allow maximum ER replicate count from 65,536 to 262,144 max limit.

    We are an ERP based vendor and we maintain more than 2,500 tables per single database. Some of our bigger costomers maintain around 100 such required databases for various activities. We are planning to migrate/upgrade our customer servers with ne...
    almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Allow STOP_APPLY functionality when RSS is disconnected from the Primary

    Currently Informix supports a Primary and multiple RSS servers. We have one of the RSS servers with the DELAY_APPLY config set to 12H and the 12 hours of logs get stored on the RSS server in the LOG_STAGING_DIR. Informix currently supports rolling...
    almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Planned for future release

    Adding search path for IDMS schema, subschema and record

    Adding search path for IDMS schema, subschema and record in GIU AD Build Client (settings panel) and in asynchronous command MS-DOS.
    almost 7 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 3 Not under consideration

    Lift 32K limit on SQL queries/results

    SQL statements that exceed 32K in their collective data types currently crash. For example, if you select 10 LVARCHAR columns of 5000 each, totaling 50000 you get an error, crashing the application. This limit is way too low and it is causing our ...
    about 7 years ago in Informix 1 Functionality already exists

    create a foreign key allowing one to one tables relationships

    Our Primary Key and Foreign key constraints always have allowed creaing and ensuring '1 to many' table relationships. After researching, there is no direct way to implement such a case with Informix. The only safe way is to create a primary key on...
    about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

    Support query parameters in projection clause

    See: https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5000z00001MLNI2AAP/db2parameter-not-working-with-merge-statement This works with DB2 according to IBM support staff.
    about 7 years ago in Informix 0 Not under consideration

    Log file rotation for Connection Manager on Windows

    Using the Connection Manager LOGFILE token, it is not possible to rotate logs. Therefore they become large and unwieldy
    over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

    Redbrick 32 and 64-bit drivers certified for IPV6 Protocol

    System: Nielsen NITRO Actor: Users are migrating their VPNs from IPV4 to IPV6 due to which there is a need to certify NITRO for IPV6 protocol. Description:Nielsen NITRO is desktop application that has capability to connect to red brick databases v...
    over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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