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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    Enhance dbschema to generate SQL for sysuser entries

    The sysadmin users is used to store: PAM trusted users (sysauth) trusted contexts (systcxusers, systcxattributes, systrustedcontext) local users (syssurrogates, sysusermap) Dbschema should be extended to allow generated DDL for: trusted...
    almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    Increase the length of Informix usernames

    Within Informix the username is defined as char(32). The Informix feature "Informix trusted context" enable Informix to be used with Federated Authentication, in such cases the impersonated user is identified using an email address. In view of thi...
    almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    LVARCHAR support via 4GL application

    Due to the implementation of a number of new functionalities and the constantly growing database, we have to switch tables from CHAR to LVARCHAR in several Bank systems, this functionality will save space but also make queries in the database more...
    8 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

    Allow Informix to kill sessions not only limited by session-id

    Informix should be able to kill sessions not only limited by session-id:For example: If a admin should kill sessions from a specific user or host a script is needed. So it would be helpfull if onmode -z would accept following syntax for example:$ ...
    about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Provide a Prometheus exporter for Informix

    Many organizations use unified approach to collecting, storing and visualizing metrics from various sources using at least one of the few established platforms of which Prometheus+Grafana are probably the most prominent. It would be very beneficia...
    about 6 years ago in Informix 1 Not under consideration

    Space Optimization tasks monitoring

    When running storage optimizations tasks (compress, repack, shrink, defragment) there is no way to monitor the progress of the task. If the table involved is a huge table, this task could run for several days and there is no way to know the task s...
    over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    Implement Oracle "Flashback Database and Restore Points"

    Implement same functionality as Oracle Flashback Database and Restore Points. There regular procedure to restore data with Informix is to restore either the entire instance or some dbspaces. This procedure can be very long (5 hours+) when high dat...
    almost 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Trap and/or Report running sql query on resource overflow

    Currently Informix kills the session before being able to report the running sql on a Memory resource overflow. Possibly the engine has a memory leak or query could be causing the problem.
    almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Speed control for 'cdr sync'

    'cdr sync' is a very fast and efficient way of creating a copy of a table when used with loopback replication. The problem is that it can be too quick and can create logical logs at a rate that can overwhelm replication and log backups. The idea i...
    almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

    online alter fragment

    make it possible to run alter fragment online
    about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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