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 profile counter for number of long transactions since most recent "onstat -z"

    Rollback most of the time is a time and resource consuming action. We would like to be able to monitor how many long transactions we (just a simple profile counter), as currently it is not easy and accurate on how to determine the amount of long t...
    about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    In a HDR cluster, be able to shut down the primary without triggering the auto-failover regardless DRAUTO setting and CM

    In a HDR cluster, one should be able to shut down the primary instance without triggering the auto-failover regardless the setting of DRAUTO and the existence of connection managers. In DHL environment, there are scenarios that the primary instanc...
    about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    ENABLE ONCHECK DATA CROSS-CHECKING FOR FUNCTIONAL INDEX

    oncheck -cI on a functional index still says:"Non vanilla index. data crosschecking not enabled" After so many years supporting functional indices we should consider enabling this. I had a customer with a corruption in a functional index on a huge...
    almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    CSDK support for static links under the latest GCC releases

    Currently the only way to produce a statically linked utility using ESQL/C is to compile and link with a GCC release earlier than 5.5. The latest is now v13. Messages look like this: art@Elbereth : ~/GoogleDrive/Latest $ esql -static -o dbstruct d...
    over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 4 Future consideration

    Improve automatic space management

    Improve the usability of Automatic Space Management for multi-tiered storage systems.Our system is using backend storage systems where not all disks/LUNs are created with equal speed/bandwidth/latency and other performance factors. Informix storag...
    over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Informix Enterprise Gateway - add support for Oracle NVARCHAR2 datatype

    Need to access a table in Oracle 11g with datatype NVARCHAR2 , but always fail with error : 29050: Error accessing schema information (field number 4 SQL type not recognized.{Sub=0x0430,Ifx=-29044,Obj=TARGE).
    over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

    Add function of updating chunk path by ontape and onbar

    add a new feature/function to onbar & ontape, to allow it to update chunk path. This will be very useful when customers do DB clone/db refresh from a cooked chunk db instance. So after clone/copy, customers just need to update the new chunk pa...
    over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

    Allow changing of S3 Prefix for onbar backups

    Scenario is you have 1000+ sites to backup all with the same informix server name. instead of changing the informixserver name you can set prefix on the onpsm backup. this allows for reducing the amount of buckets for this setup in cases where you...
    about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Certify Informix 14.10 on red-hat 7

    Our version of Informix will expire before our extended contract for red-hat 7, so we would like to upgrade the database in place to 14.10 from 12.10.fc13. Can you certify that? And give us a download for 14.10 that will not fail if we load it to ...
    over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Make ifxcollect dump location configurable

    The directory used by ifxcollect is hardcoded to $INFORMIXDIR/isa/data.This breaks as soon as IDS has been upgraded to a new version/special build and needs manual intervention which can be forgotten easily. What would probably work much better if...
    over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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