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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    Flag high volatile tables as 'VOLATILE' and access those tables differently than normal tables by the query optimizer

    A volatile table is defined as a table whose contents can vary from empty to very large at run time. In other words , statistics data is often out of date and may result in wrong access plans by the optimizer and subsequently may have lock the ent...
    almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Ability to rotate log files with Connection manager

    At the moment the informix connection manager keeps a constant handle on it's log files You cannot rotate logfiles without firts shutting down the connectin manager
    over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

    SQL Trace filtering

    SQLTrace enable the DBA to get the query plan of all the queries executed by a user (when mode=user) or by all users (when mode=global). Given that nowadays web applications and/or APIs use connection pooling, they submit a large number of queries...
    over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    NUMA aware memory allocations.

    In a system with more one NUMA node sometimes best to have all memory allocated on the first NUMA node for performance. E.g. With 2 NUMA nodes with 300Gb each, pin the lowest number CPU VPs pinned to the first NUMA node and allocate all hugepages...
    over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    insert into table default values

    A number of database vendors offer insert into table values() or insert into tables default values;
    over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Refresh for SSL Listeners (reload certificates)

    Today, until current version (12.10 xC4) isn't possible to update/replace/implement a SSL certificate without restart the engine. This RFE include two related feature : 1) Allow stop/start SOCSSL listeners using command "onmode -P" and with this r...
    about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Create a replicate table between a single instance and the root node of a Sharding

    Why is it useful? It is useful because it allows archiving of very large tables. This is useful for achiving of big tables. Addicionally, it allows higher performance to the applications, since the data is distributed in several nodes. Who would b...
    over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

    Allow PAM in OleDB clients (for password mode)

    Currently OleDB clients can't connect to PAM enabled ports.We recently allowed PAM connections for DRDA connections if in password mode (APAR IC99560). I'd say there is no reason why OleDB wouldn't work for password mode, just like it was implemen...
    over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

    HQ add essential incidents/events/status tracking and alerting

    HQ is on its way to be a great monitoring tool. In order to ensure it is, here are some important features to add (not sure I could see them on FC3). Let's first deal with missing essential alerts:- include notion of warning and critical incident...
    about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Currently =X does not work from any panel, should add this to the product

    Must press pf3 to get out of the product, then =X or =XALL
    about 5 years ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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