IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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    Add onmode -F <type> to free only certain memory e.g. vpcache.

    When having e.g. excessive vpcache usage we need to free the memory and associated shared memory segments for just the vpcache. Our use case was smx buffers to it would be even better to be able to just free the 'free' smx buffers.Trying to free a...
    almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Speed option for table repack

    Table repack is a powerful feature but can generate a lot of logical logs. When repacking a large table, which may take many hours, the number of logs created can easily overwhelm the log backup processes and/or cause replication lag. Potential co...
    over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    Backup/Restore GUI within HQ

    One of the least enjoyable tasks is to using the archecker utility. Many times we need to restore just a row and/or rows in a table from an ontape backup. Restoring an entire database is easy from the command line. It would be very helpful if HQ c...
    almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Future consideration

    Multi Row Insert

    Support Multi Row Insert: insert into table1 (col1, ..., colx) values (1, ..., x), ... (1000, ..., x) ; Using Multi Row Insert multiple rows can be inserted with just one statement. Other RDBMs provide this feature with a performance improvement o...
    almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

    Connection Manager should have an option to initiate failover if a shared memory dump is started.

    In high transaction environments shared memory dumps could have enough impact they cannot be enabled.The connection manger should be able to detect that an instance is dumped shared memory and be able to initiate failover.
    almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Permit blocking checkpoints on secondary nodes when raw tables exist on the primary node.

    Currently we cannot issue a blocked checkpoint on a secondary (RSS in our case) when there exists raw tables on the primary node. We use raw tables heavily for admin jobs (mostly for the selection processing of archiving/purging jobs) to avoid swa...
    almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Support IDataReader::GetBytes / IfxDataReader::GetBytes for BSON fields

    We're using the BSON capabilities of the Informix server in order to store data in a separate BSON colum - like additional information for the data row or optional fields that may vary from row to row (e.g. translations to different languages). Wi...
    almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 3 Not under consideration

    Change ANLPCOLL JCL generation from using DSNTEP2 to ADBTEP2 to facilitate easy restart if job abends

    No description provided
    almost 5 years ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

    DBSPACETEMP environment variable needs to accommodate multiple page sizes concurrently

    When using DBSPACETEMP, the listing in onconfig is limited to one pagesize. The environment variable for DBSPACETEMP also allows for one page size. The engine needs to be able to pick the correct pagesize for temp space usage, and the current arch...
    almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Add Informix to HammerDB benchmarking tool

    HammerDB is a leading benchmarking tool to benchmark database performance. This tool enables DBA to verify configuration of the OS/database and assess the impact of any hardware or database configuration changes. HammerDB supports DB2 however ...
    almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

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