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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    Certify informix 12.10 on RHEL8

    NEWS FLASH - the website now shows that 12.10.FC15 is certified on RHEL 8. This should be marked as completed. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/informix-server-system-requirements We need to stay with Informix 12 so that our compiled 4GL will con...
    over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

    ADMIN_USER_MODE_WITH_DBSA and ADMIN_MODE_USERS shall be changeable values via onmode -wf/-wm.

    The mentioned values shall be online changeable to avoid downtimes of informix. Especially within production landscape it is very important to avoid any unnecessary downtimes.
    over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    InformixHQ support for Large tables as part of the 15.0 release

    For Informix 15.0, InformixHQ needs to support the creation of large tables through the "Create Table" option and be able to distinguish between small and large tables on the table information page.
    about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

    optimize the interval fragment

    when using interval fragment with date or datetime column, the latest fragment is in the last one, so the performance of the Insert will become slow. if Informix can keep the latest fragment as the first fragment, it will improve the performance o...
    over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    change the bufferpool size online

    when I add the new dbspace, the page size is 16 k; Informix add a default bufferpool , I forget to create the bufferpool using onparams firstly, later I found it's too small, can't meet the performance requirement, I found I have no method to chan...
    over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

    Add Readonly Database Connection Support

    It would be beneficial to have a readonly connection when accessing the database from third party software. Many products provide the ability to connect via JDBC but they also have the ability to make changes. Example LibreOffice Base can be setup...
    over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Allow DBA to re-initialize OS process cache created by the resolver routines

    This is a follow up of RFE 33797.The original RFE was closed as "Delivered", but I think the analysis was incorrect. The complain is that whenever a OS process calls gethostbyaddr() or equivalent, the OS itself will cache some information about th...
    over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Add Block Indexes to informix

    Add Block Indexes to informix similar to DB2 MDC Tables and Postgres BRIN Indexes.
    over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Enable READ ONLY access to DB2 from Informix using DRDA protocol

    This is request for Wal-Mart , we have 100s of Informix gateway manager installed (DRDA) to join quries Informix and DB2 database.
    over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Support Multitenancy in InformixHQ

    Multitenancy is a valuable and often underestimated feature of informix. InformixHQ should be able to work with this feature. Otherwise customers have no comfortable access to this feature. We use this heavily onprem for different important rea...
    over 6 years ago in Informix 0 Not under consideration

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