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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    UTF8 should be handled in background instead of setting SQL_LOGICAL_CHAR

    More and more customers have to include data from all over the world. The solution for this is UTF8, but for now this feature does not work in the background and add space if needed. The feature is implemented using SQL_LOGICAL_CHAR as configurati...
    over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Transparent LDAP Authentication for Informix

    The Informix (AVL) customer T-Systems/Deutsche Telekom AG requests transparent LDAP authentication for Informix. Last year T-Systems/Deutsche Telekom AG replaced the complete HP-UX hardware for the application REBELL/Ironman by IBM Power AIX machi...
    over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    When AUTO_REPREPARE is non zero only have 1 sessions recompile a stored procedure

    When AUTO_REPREPARE is non zero only have 1 sessions recompile a stored procedure. Currently with many sessions executing the same stored procedure, the stored procedure can be recompiled by many sessions causing a bottleneck. A new condition is n...
    about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Ability to VM snapshot an On-Line Informix database

    Due to the widespread popularity of vmware, the Informix database should be able to interact with the vmware software to block and take a proper snapshot of the database. This would enable people with vmware to do a snapshot of an Informix databas...
    over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Add ability to control optimizer version.

    Similar to DB2 z/OS Functional Levels and SQL Server Database Compatablity Level add ability to do the same for new optimizer versions. At least compared to the previous version. This allows more confidence for upgrades. This would allow upgrading...
    about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Reclaim free space from chunks

    Add a command to reclaim the free space (at the end of the chunk) , reducing the file size. This is very useful for cooked files. Just like SHRINKDATABASE at MS Sql Server, but for chunks....
    over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    oncheck should be able to repair bad rowids in an index

    oncheck should be able to repair bad rowids in an index. i.e. remove bad rowids and add missing rowids. i.e. online index repair.
    about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Certification of Informix Connection Manager with ESQL/COBOL

    We are implementing Informix Connection manager with HDR as High Availability solution for our organization. During testing, we identified connection manager is not certified for ESQL/Cobol, our business-critical application is written in Cobol. i...
    over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 3 Not under consideration

    Informix should be supported as a Kubernetes based Database inside of the Container

    We have Docker for this presently. Many customers have requested this, particularly those support OpenShift and RHEL Linux.
    about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

    Dbexport/dbimport validate *_LOCALE vars before accessing data files

    When working with UTF8 database, DB_LOCALE and CLIENT_LOCALE are required to interact correctly with the databases. This RFE is about issuing a warning to the DBA when doing a dbexport/dbimport with CLIENT_LOCALE unset, especially when DB_LOCALE i...
    about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

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