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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    Config for the server to refuse to start if shared memory segments do not use huge pages.

    When shared memory segments are not using huge pages there can be performance impact I would like an option for the engine to abort startup similar to FULL_DISK_INIT=0 if huge pages cannot be used for shared memory segments. Scenario: sysmaster sy...
    almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Allow renaming a database when BTS Index is defined

    When renaming a database that has a BTS (Basic Text Search) index defined, it fails with error -9874. In the documentation it reads: [...] The RENAME DATABASE statement fails with error -9874, however, if the specified database contains any of the...
    almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

    Support for datetime with timezone

    Informix currently lacks an SQL standard datatype to store datetime/timestamp with timezone. This datatype is supported on other databases with different datatypes names: “TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE/LOCAL TIME ZONE” in Oracle “TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZO...
    about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

    Better checkpoint flush statistics

    Improve checkpoint flush statistics to show storage performance issues better.
    about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Alter table that has foreign keys

    Abilit to alter tables with foreig keys when referenced tables are opened.
    over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Supply DBD-Informix Driver for PERL DBI on Linux

    I was doing DB development in an Ubuntu/Linux enviornment using PERL. PERL has a database abstraction layer called DBI. Supports preparing queries to both MySQL and Informix with no changes. It does rely on a lower layer DB interface driver, for I...
    over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

    Ability to rotate encryption at rest keys on the Engine

    Corporate security has requested us to change the EAR keys on demand as they see having the same key as a security risk. We would like to see a feature to change the .sth and .p12 files in an easier manner.
    almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    14.10.FC6 multiple page sizes for temp dbspaces - intelligent use based on page size.

    Intelligent use of temp dbspaces with multiple pages.
    over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    extended ESQL/C login structure for solving password length problem

    Status: In an application using ESQL/C authentication with instance users, a user can change his password by using sql with a passwort length greater than the 18 character limit imposed by the struct InetLogin (see case TS003855467). After the cha...
    about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

    Support LIMIT clause in Common Table Expressions

    Using LIMIT clause in a CTE gives a syntax error (with IDS 14.10.FC10) sf@toro (master):~/genero/devel/dbsync/dbsync$ cat x.sql WITH recent_rows AS (SELECT log_ordinal FROM dbsync_log WHERE log_table_name = 'stkitem' ORDER BY log_ordinal DESC LIMI...
    over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

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