IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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    Informix latest version of 14.10 and 15.0 on OS: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS (Noble Numbat)'

    Hi Informix Team, We can see at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1079427 , that Informix Server 14.10 and 15.x is not released for Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS (Noble Numbat). The current supported Ubuntu 22.04 LTS will EOS in June 2027 . Thank you ve...
    6 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Have an new TEMP_TABLE_SIZE = [LARGE|SMALL] onconfig and session parameter

    It appears that LARGE temp tables are not best practice, as these are slower than SMALL temp tables. It would be nice to avoid application code changes because of this Informix behavior, and force programmers to use CREATE SMALL TEMP TABLE ... All...
    24 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Please correct to execute a complete search if the primary key of IMS-DB is specified in || (concatination).

    When executing SQL, a complete search is not performed but a search of all counts is performed if the primary key of IMS-DB is specified in || (concatination). This is poor performance to use DVM.Please correct to execute a complete search even if...
    7 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

    Request official support for monitoring Informix with Datadog products

    Request the ability to monitor Informix using Datadog products as customer relies on Datadog as their central monitoring platform and would prefer to consolidate all activities there
    5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Under review

    Informix - Adjusting Edition Limits

    With the introduction of IDS 15, storage options within an instance have become virtually unlimited. Fortunately, this has also removed several restrictions that, over the years, led to unnecessary administrative effort across different editions. ...
    11 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

    Improve SMF data for DVM Outbound

    Currently DVM Outbound provides very limited SMF data. We would like to see details similar to that captured for DVM Inbound, specifically raw bytes transferred. Also, for CICS processes it currently only captures the CICS region where the call to...
    about 1 month ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Improve SMF data for Inbound ACI

    Currently DVM Inbound ACI calls produce SMF details that show the CICS region where the call is being processed. We need to know the CICS transaction name in order to assign usage by specific application area.
    about 1 month ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Request Informix slow queries history

    When a user executes a query and the execution time is over x seconds, the SQL text is saved to a database table, along with general statistics like number of times it executes, avg duration, rows retrieve, row sent, etc. This is configured at a d...
    3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Under review

    A user with DBA privilege should be able to change the owner of a table without need to recreate it.

    When a table needs to have a different owner, it is not possible to change it without recreating such object. It is to mention that Informix 8.21 allowed the change of the owner of the table with the RENAME TABLE statement. This is very usefull wh...
    5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Future consideration

    In AVZSIN00 - for the Define Database section the NAME parameter 4 chars is a limit

    The name parameter has a limit of 4 chars. It is the connection name that user can see on DVM studio. Our external databases have names with more character and to have to convert them to only 4 could be a limit.For example ORAT1SRV need to be codi...
    11 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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