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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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    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 1 Submitted

    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 1 Submitted

    Informix V15 PDF Manuals

    PDF Manuals are needed for offline use.
    about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Submitted

    Automated Update Statistics and FORCE

    AUS appends FORCE to UPDATE STATISTICS statements saved in "sysadmin:aus_command.aus_cmd_exe" when using C function "aus_evaluate_stats" but not when using SPL "aus_evaluator". Both need a configuration parameter to enable or disable FORCE. Some s...
    11 months 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...
    22 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Client SDK Release For Linux Repositories

    For most other major databases you can install a database driver from the standard package management repository. "apt-get install mysql-client" "yum install postgres-dev", etc. It easily allows systems to be set up to communicate and work with th...
    11 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

    Request block level Informix cluster replication

    Using block level replication will avoid a lot of SQL apply processing issues. It will lead to significant performance gains by offloading replication workload. Since it is an identical copy of the primary database, it can even fix corrupt block b...
    3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Submitted

    Better search facility for filters in Informix-HQ. Like a negation NOT operator.

    At the terminal, I can type onstat -u to see all sessions (actually, threads). And if I want to see sessions owned by by user jake, I would type onstat -u | grep jake . Switching to InformixHQ, selecting [Server]/[Performance]/[Sessions] I can see...
    3 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

    onaudit for informix user - exclude system databases from the audit trail

    Currently, our audit tool is configured to monitor DDL and DML actions specifically for the user "Informix." This setup ensures that our audit report contains only the information necessary for business purposes. However, it is also recording acti...
    12 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    In 4GL, Add support for non-Informix Databases

    Add ability to: Connect to multiple databases simultaneously Connect to non-Informix Databases, such as Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MySQL, etc
    about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

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