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 Query Store functionality to Informix and revert to Last Good Plan

    Add functionality to Informix similar to SQL Server Query Store. SQL and plans are logged to a system database. Also if a plan gets worse then the server can learn and go back to the previous query plan if still valid. This would be helpful when t...
    almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    Provide the DBA with detailed connection information

    When a user connects, the information of sysmaster:syssessions, onstat -u, onstat -g ses <session ID> provide information related to username, client hostname, etc. Currently its difficult/laborious to determine the Informix listener used by...
    over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Improve the VPCACHE memory manage

    The VPCACHE resource having the option to be DYNAMIC or STATIC. At the documentation, the DYNAMIC option says: " You can set the mode to DYNAMIC to allow the size of each private memory cache to increase or decrease automatically based on the work...
    over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

    Adjust the column widths of the displayed table

    When displaying a list of objects in the chat window, if the number of keys (columns) exceeds a certain threshold, all column widths become extremely narrow.Unless we can adjust the displayed column widths beforehand or control them on the screen,...
    9 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

    Request for support IMS call with assembler in ADDI callgraph

    ADDI cannot show IMS call with assembler in callgraph. Callgraph shows ASMTDLI but nothing beyond. It will be a nice tool for assembler analisys If ADDI support IMS call with assembler.
    over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

    Add support for system versioned tables

    This feature is about having native support to version data within the table. The application will always be able to access the most current data, however through pseudo columns or via other means older version of the data is available. This featu...
    about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

    CM should support majority-vote failover arbitration as an alternative to priority-based

    Currently, the Informix Connection Manager handles failover arbitration on the basis of a priority setting in the ${CMCONFIG} file. This has the effect of making a single CM the judge, jury and executioner when it comes to failover events. And it ...
    over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

    Allow MAX_PDQPRIORITY to be configurable per user.

    We want to Informix to be able to use PDQ but we would not want 3rd party logins to be able to use PDQ and impact processing. The existing onconfig parmeter should be a default is it is not defined for the user.
    about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    Implement Oracle "Flashback Database and Restore Points"

    Implement same functionality as Oracle Flashback Database and Restore Points. There regular procedure to restore data with Informix is to restore either the entire instance or some dbspaces. This procedure can be very long (5 hours+) when high dat...
    over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Better tool for performance analysis and tips

    Until now, we can use the tool "explain" to have a query plan generated or use "onmode -Y" for the same purpose. Next, we can use onstat indicators or SMI queries to mearure performance. Anyway, this has downsides:- You have to know the query for ...
    almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

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