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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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    Informix should be supported as a Kubernetes based Database inside of the Container

    We have Docker for this presently. Many customers have requested this, particularly those support OpenShift and RHEL Linux.
    about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

    Separate user for working with Informix CDC API

    Currently the Informix CDC API requires the use of the 'informix' account. We would like the Informix CDC API modified so that it can run in a fully supported fashion as a separate user.
    almost 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Print session info for long transaction in msg log or DUMPDIR

    I searched to see if anyone had opened up a RFE for the below and did not find one, if there is one then please disregard. One of our customers has now hardened down security to such a degree that I can no longer connect to the server in which Inf...
    over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Add MPP/DPF/XPS Clustering to Informix

    DB2 has MPP/DPF, Oracle has RAC, Sybase has Cluster Edition. Informix used to have XPS, where is the ability to scale out Informix?
    over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    Informix HQ: Display kind of DBSpace type

    Informix HQ (1.0.0 2019-02-07) has the functionality to display dbspaces (Storage --> Spaces). The Type column shows temporary dbspace, sbspace and dbspace. It does not show e.g. the Physical Log Dbspace. (onsta -d flag P). Furthermore HQ could...
    almost 7 years ago in Informix 0 Not under consideration

    Add support for an asynchronous/non-blocking Java API

    Add support for an asynchronous/non-blocking Java API called Reactive Relational Database Connectivity (R2DBC) (https://r2dbc.io/). The R2DBC driver list includes several DBMS, but not Informix. Customer case: In Huge systems with lots of users se...
    over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 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

    Enhancement to DROP PROCEDURE / DROP FUNCTION syntax

    Currently, the DROP PROCEDURE statement requires that the all of the procedure parameters necessary to completely identify the specific procedure. This is important due to Informix supporting polymorphic procedures, and is generally a good thing. ...
    over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Not under consideration

    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

    Allow disabling automatic Next Extent calculations

    Informix automatically doubles the Next Extent size for every 16 extents on a table. This action will continue until an extent is large enough to provide at least 10% free space. On very large, slow-growing tables, this can lead to an incredible w...
    over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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