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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    XPS provides a dot notation for COSERVERS, this is blocked under IDS which means a change from XPS to IDS requires a complete application layer rebuild

    Migrating from a long time out-of-support XPS system to V14 requires all the <INFORMIXSERVER>.<COSERVER> notation to be change to <INFORMIXSERVER><COSERVER> as the dot notation is not supported under IDS. As XPS is long tim...
    over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 5 Under review

    Enhance Performance Guide to cover Replication Tuning including ER and Performance Monitoring for Replication

    Allow optimal setup of Replication and assist in resolving bottlenecks.
    7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Add SQL-statement COMMENT ON as in Oracle or PostgreSQL

    For some tables or columns it would be helpful to describe what the table/column is used for since the names are not always self-explanatory. Although COMMENT ON is not part of standard SQL it would be helpful to have such a statement. The DOCUMEN...
    over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 6 Future consideration

    Please remove the error -21569 when accessing via the SQL Admin API

    If you use a dbaccess or other client of a version older than 15.0.0.0 with the SQL Admin API to retrieve information from large tables, you get the error message -21569 'this client cannot create or open tables that use large rowids'. For example...
    about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Improve Stored Procedures features

    We are trying to increase the usage of SP in our system environment. Migrating business code from 4GL to the database.But this process becomes very painful for our developers since the support for SPL is limited. Mainly the inexistence of a native...
    almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    Enable/Disable Triggers at a Session or SQL level

    I need update a significant number of rows on a very large table that has triggers. If I run disable triggers that is affect all sessions and means I need to take the table offline, which really means I need to take the system down SQL similar to ...
    about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    session setting to make an index invisible just for the current session

    It would be useful to have a session setting that makes an index INVISIBLE for the current session only as well as a session setting to reverse that and make an index VISIBLE for the session. The latter might only work to reverse session level inv...
    9 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 4 Functionality already exists

    Client SDK Release For Linux Repositories

    For most other major databases you can install a database driver from the standard package management repository. "apt-get install mysql-client" "yum install postgres-dev", etc. It easily allows systems to be set up to communicate and work with th...
    9 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

    Add Materialized Views to Infomrix same as Oracle and DB2

    Add Materialized Views to Infomrix same as Oracle and DB2
    over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Under review

    Add in a "cdr learn server" or something similiar to connect two servers on an ER domain that may not have known about each other previously.

    Servers and networking change around. There may be cases where two ER nodes who previously were unaware of each other or 'forgot' about each other need to be reconnected. Right now the only way to resolve this cleanly is to drop one of them from t...
    7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

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