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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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ER CDR Sync for local reorg

A means to use cdr sync internal to an instance. I am looking to use golden gate to do an informix reorg because it can validate that the data is insync between two tables but if "cdr sync" could work from an instance to the same instance then I c...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Implement INLIST_TO_NLJN in Informix

Implement INLIST_TO_NLJN in Informix
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add functionality to speed up reading pages into buffers

Add functionality to speed up reading pages into buffers This RFE is logged because a performance problem arise with IBM Cognos software with Informix. The business complaints that when the first runner of a report runs in 20minutes and subsequent...
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

INFORMIX Servers Management table Auto Repair Tool

Database management table of (systables, sysindexes, syscolumns, etc..) information is damaged,The repair to us function when the consistency has become not be maintained.
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Only update rows in referenced tables only once per template repair (with p > 0), thus avoid deadlock & LongTX

Product in Use IBM Informix 11.70UC8X6Customer Information Duane GuthrieEmail: dguthrie@cisco.com Phone: 972-813-5115Sizing info TBDProduct Enhancement Request Abstract Request to only update rows in referenced tables (t1 and t2 here) only once ...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Ability to backup/clone a database across the network (redirected restore)(RIMS)

Verizon needs the capability to issue a set write suspend IO command on database. Get the data to another instance at another location and bring it up. Informix has this ability and Verizon likes it. This is called a redirected restore. Verizon's ...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Not under consideration

make Informix JDBC driver JDBC 4 compliant

The Informix JDBC driver should be JDBC4 compliant. That means, no separate JARs for driver and XA-driver and the file „java.sql.Driver“ in the „META-INF/services/“ directory
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Delivered

Informix Query Engine generates bad query/explain plan

There are situations where two or more columns from the same table are related to each other. For example, product_type and product_code from the products table are related, since only certain product_code values can be associated with a given pro...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

optimize the LO access for small amount of data

Optimize the LO access of the Informix JDBC Driver for small amount of data. Right now there is bad bad performance in data retrieval because the amount of work and message between the server and client to retrieve the data is more than the data i...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Delivered

SHOW VARY RESULTS WITH BATCHEDREAD_INDEX

support team reply this is work as Informix design, but from customer view, they cannot accept. CIB want IBM to review this issue, hope IBM can change the design.
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration