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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    Add SSL certs

    "Plain text" connections to Informix are only encrypted if using SSL. The manuals and internet only explain "self assigned certification" well enough to implement. To make matters worse the "certs" expire and then you have to wipe everything out, ...
    over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Online index rebuild

    We need command tool in Informix >>-ALTER INDEX--index--REBUILD------------>< | | '-ONLINE-' working like: REBUILD INDEX online utility in DB2 or ALTER INDEX index REBUILD ONLINE in Oracle or REINDEX [INDEX|TABLE] in PostgreSQL
    about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    Accelerating Subqueries in IWA

    Currently, IWA does not fully accelerate subqueries of the following two forms: 1) Subqueries in FROM clause 2) Subqueries in WHERE clause:
    about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Increase supported ADMIN_MODE_USERS by moving list from onconfig to table

    Parameter ADMIN_MODE_USERS handy during migrations. the ability to make the database available for a subset of users is great for post migration validation. However the length of the field (127 bytes) is a limitation that ends up being somewhat mi...
    about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    Informix native driver for Go programming language

    We need an Informix native driver for the Go programming language.
    almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

    Improvements to UPDATE STATISTICS LOW

    The run time of UPDATE STATISTICS LOW can be reduced by setting the parameter USTLOW_SAMPLE which also reduces I/O by using a sampling algorithm. However the table data may be deemed to be too heavily skewed and the engine falls back to a full sca...
    over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Config option to raise an SQL error on inserting a too long string value

    Inserting of any string value should not result with a silent automatic truncation of a given value and with an OK transaction result status. Exactly this is the default DBMS behaviour for non-ANSI databases.One solution for this could be the intr...
    about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Not under consideration

    Need dead connection timeout parameter

    The Cisco Call Manager team was recently testing LOGINTIMEOUT settings under various conditions. This testing led CUCM to ask IBM how to control the time out once the connection has been established but then the target is suddenly no longer reacha...
    about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Automátic column-level encryption at rest

    In Europe we have strong laws (GDPR) protecting personal data. Nobody, even programers or DBA can access personal data if not from an audited program who grants individual access to each user able to see this information. As application examples, ...
    almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Allow abort defragment

    Allow abort the defragment command.
    about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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