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Need config param to allow user to specify what dbspaces should be used for Mongo collections

Currently (IDS 12.10.FC2X6) when a collection is created in the Informix server the dbspaces used are selected by some automated process. The user has no control where the data or indexes are placed. There should be a config parameter which could ...
over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Improve performance on multifact query on an informix database

We make Cognos reports on multifacts creating multifact queries with full outer join. To keep the query execution time low, we need absolutely the enhancement/fix be implemented in the next informix fixpack 12.10. It is unacceptable when the compe...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Integrate with Customer's Vault to consume credentials for pre-built tools

Currently, to connect pre-built skills tools, the customer needs to input connection credentials. Instead, the customer would like to integrate with their own secret store/vault and have the ability for the system to automatically pull credentials...
about 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Future consideration

New IBM Watsonx for Enterprises based on IBM Cloud Satellite with CXL disaggregated Memory

This idea is important because of the following: 1- Ability for Enterprise solution based on the following: A- This idea will efficiently enabling the Watsonx orchestrate to manage, control and deployment the Generative LLM Models, RAGs, and Knowl...
about 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Onconfig parameter to disable automatic registration of datablades.

In high volume environments automatic registration of datablades can cause too much contention and impact processing.We would like a new onconfig parameter to disable the automatic registration of datablades.
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

A tmp database created with the server, analogous to the /tmp file system

In Linux systems (and in all Unix flavors) there is a /tmp directory or better, a /tmp file system. Anyone can create a file or directory in there and, in Linux, it cleared at boot time. (Other flavors use a cron job to clear out unused files.) I ...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

SELinux policies for Informix on RHEL version 7 and upwards

At startup the Informix database spawns a number of processes, that run as unconfined SeLinux processes. From the permission perspective, some of these processes run as informix user (example: cpu and encrypt vps) whilst others run as root user (l...
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Limit open partitions to avoid very large rsam pool

In systems with a lot of tables informix can have a very large rsam pool. This can cause informix to allocate so much memory it starts swapping or in memory limiting versions (like workgroup, express etc.) to even let the engine crash. Sometimes t...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Allow SPL variables to be used to define index directives.

Inside a stored procedure allow the index name for a directive to come from a variable:...define v_bs_index varchar(100);define p_id like tBS.id,...let v_bs_index = ( select cfg from Cfg where group = 'INDEXES' and name = 'TBS_INDEX' )...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Support "ansible.controller" Collection

Two clients have asked the ability to develop some ansible playbooks using the config as code ansible collection from Red Hat named 'ansible.controller'. This collection is not part of the default base granite LLM model training. Instead the 'awx....
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible 0 Future consideration