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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    JDBC driver shouldn't require SSLCONNECTION to be set when SQLHOSTS is used

    Currently, the Informix JDBC driver requires SSLCONNECTION=true for connection strings that involve a TLS database listener. But when SQLH_TYPE and SQLH_FILE are set, the sqlhosts file already contains this information in the protocol field; it th...
    over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

    Table level restore

    To enhance functionality of ontape/onbar utility to enable table level restore.
    over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

    Create a real IDS driver for Tableau

    Hi, my customer is a long haul IDS customer who loves it. A few years ago, his team fell in love with Tableau, which resolved many business cases for his company. Unfortunately, after getting more and more demanding with Tableau functionality, and...
    over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

    Add Informix/onbar in the list of VEEAM Enterprise Backup Solution supported platforms

    VEEAM is a fast growing Enterprise Backup solution. As of today, Informix is not part of VEEAM's supported DBMS, but should be supported before decision makers choose other DBMS platforms.
    over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Allow "group commit" as other RDBMS

    For high use OLTP systems, there can be a lot of I/O pressure on the logical log due to intense rate of logical log buffer flushing (most customer don't ant data loss so they use UNBUFFERED LOG). Setting BUFFERED LOG at session level would hardly ...
    almost 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Future consideration

    Encrypting and Decrypting Stored Procedures

    Would like Informix to have feature of encrypt the source code for a stored procedure and function.
    almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Under review

    Online.log could also print session detail of additional memory segment allocation

    In high usage OLTP systems, it is a hard work to identify which session(s) is(are) demanding too much memory from the Informix engine.A good thing for us to help to identify abnormal programs execution/behaviour would be to print session details (...
    about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Needs more information

    Improve performance of L1/L2 backups

    Current, for L1 (or L2) backups we need to read all pages. This is highly inefficient and there are alternatives for implementing this.In the PMR we've been told this matches old FEA idsdb00010525. In this the proposed solution was to maintain a t...
    about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    IF NOT EXISTS should not be saved as part of stored routine source

    When creating a stored procedure or function with the IF NOT EXISTS optional clause included, the option text is currently included in the saved source code for the procedure. This is not true of any other database object created with the IF NOT E...
    over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

    V15 sqlca structure to report BIGSERIAL & SERIAL8 value assigned by INSERT

    In versions of the engine prior to v15.0 & CSDK library versions prior to v15.0, the SQLCA structure fields were int4 and could not hold the values returned from inserting to a BIGSERIAL or SERIAL8 column requiring a separate call to the DBINF...
    12 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

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