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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    Create an Archive checker to validate L1 backups

    We need a tool that validates the Level1 backups in a similar manner of the L0 backups arch-checker
    2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Allow online index builds of functional indexes

    The fact that we can't build functional indexes online effectively precludes them from use - or at least, makes it very difficult, as we can't do offline builds without an outage - which is expensive
    2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    onmode -I <error No> should have an optional flag to automagically turn off the trapping

    Real world, intermittently I see a 208 error from the app layer, typically in batches of 100 or so and normally at inconvenient times. This would allow me to set the onmode -I and walk away until the error trips and not having the server swamped w...
    4 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Expose pipeline lineage visibility into Atlan

    Customer needs to expose visibility of Streaming pipelines into Atlan. Pipelines in use extract / consume data from a range of sources (including SQL Server, CDC) and push the data to Snowflake.
    about 1 month ago in StreamSets 1 Needs more information

    Support for ON DELETE SET NULL and ON UPDATE CASCADE clauses in FOREIGN KEY statements

    A customer wanted to use a construction like ALTER TABLE detail_table ADD CONSTRAINT FOREIGN KEY (link_column) REFERENCES master_table ON DELETE SET NULL; so that referencing values would be updated to NULL automatically if a parent row was delete...
    over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

    Limited the number of row processed with an update/delete statement

    THis is similar to MS Server (and other DBs) DELETE ... TOP <N> and TOP <n> PERCENT This would help avoid LTX issues without custom SQL coding, it would minimize the time the table is locked UPDATE FIRST 10000 COUNT 0 ... N <table&g...
    about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Backup Individual database, not entire instance

    Need a mechanism, similar to ontape, to backup a live database (as opposed to entire instance), without locking it.
    over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    "Prevent the dbschema command from incrementing sequence values"

    Currently, running dbschema increments the value of sequences, even when it is documented it is the expected behavior, we consider that it is not desireable.
    about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Reread SSL Keystore while Informix is running

    To renewing the SSL Keystore Files it is neccesary to restart the whole DB Engine / Connection Manager, when the keystore Files have been changed. A "reread keystore" Function would be very helpfull, and would save a lot of Time and reduce downtim...
    6 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    Add Scheduled Tasks to Projects

    Scheduled Tasks is not available in Projects: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/streamsets-controlhub?topic=manage-projects#concept_jkn_5m1_5fc__title__1 This request is to add Scheduled Tasks to Projects
    3 months ago in StreamSets 1 Future consideration

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