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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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Online.log could also print session detail of additional memory segment allocation

In high usage OLTP systems, it is a hard work to identify which session(s) is(are) demanding too much memory from the Informix engine.A good thing for us to help to identify abnormal programs execution/behaviour would be to print session details (...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Needs more information

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 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

When NLU suggests relevant controls based on risk description currently OpenPages is associating selected controls to the risk

when NLU suggest relevant controls based on risk description currently openpages is associating selected controls to the risk. Instead if it can prompt the user wtih two options like "Associate/create" then it will be good for user to choose
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas 2 Delivered

Greater variation of colors available in the Task Focused UI

The TFUI has limited colours ranges. Red Amber Yellow Green is a standard colour configuration utilised within our organisation, however there is no amber available. It would be good if the colour range was fully configurable
about 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 3 Delivered

Two pass logic

When a user attempts to delete a record on OpenPages, the system presents them with a pop-up ‘OK' / ‘Cancel'. It's a really good ‘user experience'. We'd like to implement a similar two-pass logic, and being able to utilise this same approach would...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Not under consideration

Show text size next to Simple String Text fields on Loss Event Entry application

Users who submit Events/Incidents via the Loss Event Entry Application need to provide a description of what caused the event and the field that absorbs this information in OpenPages is a Simple Text field (4000 bytes) only. It would be good if th...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

TFUI - Enable Workflow Validations and Operations on SAVE

Many of the data quality rules span objects - Eg. Impact booking date must be GT Event Occurrence Date. Form rules only allow for rules on a single object so cannot be used. Workflow rules for validations and operations only run on workflow transi...
about 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 3 Not under consideration

Evaluate using io_uring for I/O in Informix Linux Platform

Create some performance tests and evaluate an architecture change in Informix to migrate AIO or Kernel AIO to using kernel io_uring Maybe it's not possible to use io_uring in Informix and nowadays, performance increase from using IO_DIRECT KAIO to...
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

HQ add essential incidents/events/status tracking and alerting

HQ is on its way to be a great monitoring tool. In order to ensure it is, here are some important features to add (not sure I could see them on FC3). Let's first deal with missing essential alerts:- include notion of warning and critical incident...
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Enable the Report tab in OpenPages Dashboard (TFUI) to render Active Reports

Active reports are interactive, quick filtering, attractive in look and feel and animations. As of now when we add active report in dashboard tab, it does not run in the same tab , but it opens up in a completely new window, instead running in the...
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Not under consideration