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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    Data Masking in INFORMIX

    Our objective is not to see any sensitive data outside the production systems. As an example here is our real requirement. In a PROD environment, we can see the table data as usual . For data protection purposes, the data of the same table needs t...
    over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future 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...
    about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Add onconfig parameter to limit TLS ciphers used.

    Add onconfig parameter to limit TLS ciphers used. Perhaps called SSL_CIPHERSPECS Similar to DB2 parameter ssl_cipherspecs https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/10.5?topic=instance-supported-cipher-suites
    over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

    Enable defined limits on sqltrace

    We would like to see the ability to add limits when enabling sqltrace to limit it to only trace by specific requirements. The basic one, which this alone would make a huge difference would be the ability to list one or more tables and only have it...
    over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Make adoption of forest-of-trees indices easier with existing large tables

    Rebuilding an index as a FOT is not supported using "alter fragment on index init". This would be useful to avoid dropping and later re-adding primary keys and referencing foreign keys. Building a FOT index is not possible in parallel. Building a ...
    over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Add Query Store functionality to Informix and revert to Last Good Plan

    Add functionality to Informix similar to SQL Server Query Store. SQL and plans are logged to a system database. Also if a plan gets worse then the server can learn and go back to the previous query plan if still valid. This would be helpful when t...
    about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    Improvement in the check for high serial values

    I'm trying to check if a serial value has reached its upper limit. I noticed the following unpleasant behaviour. In the sysmaster tables sysptnhdr and sysactptnhdr the currently used serial values are in three fields for the datatypes serial, seri...
    over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

    Informix HQ monitoring of raw disks

    At the moment the Informix HQ product tries to monitor the storage using a "df -k" command This will not work though when Informix is running on raw disks.
    almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    informix can restrict ip/host to connect with DB .

    currently we have not option in Informix DB to restrict ip or any host to connect with DB or instance, i think ibm need to add this facility in new version.
    about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

    Build a Informix HQ server Container

    The current process for deploying Informix HQ servers and agents across 600+ sites involves manually redoing scripts and configuration files for each site. This process is time-consuming, error-prone, and difficult to scale as it requires individu...
    about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

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