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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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Set DBSPACEDOWN for individual dbspaces

ONDBSPACEDOWN setting in onconfig affects Informix' reaction to any dbspace. However, users may have different needs for separate dbspaces. Some may be critical, others may not.Would be helpful to have the ability to override the instance setting ...
over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

we would like to raise a feature request for Informix to generate alerts or log messages in the online message log whenever index corruption is detected, as such events are currently not notified or recorded. on Informix secondary servers

In an Informix cluster environment, when the secondary server becomes the primary, any existing corruption on the secondary can be carried over without any notification. This can result in the corruption impacting all DML operations on the new pri...
19 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

add an option in Informix HQ to surpress alerts during HQ start up

When we have HQ monitoring in place on HQ agent status and IDS status, if we have server OS restart/rebuild, HQ alerts will be triggered. We prefer there could be an option to tell HQ not to generate alert during scheduled outage/scheduled server ...
2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Request Full Compatible GSKIT with HCL INFORMIX SERVER

With the newest HCL Informix 14.10.FC11W1X2 it is neccesary to set ENV 'ISI_GSK_FIPS_MODE=OFF' on every IBM CSDK GSKIT Client to get a working SSL Connection to a HCL INFORMIX 14.10.FC11W1X2 OPENSSL SERVER. A GSKIT is needed where it is not necces...
7 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

informix can restrict ip/host to connect with DB .

currently we have not option in Informix DB to restrict ip or any host to connect with DB or instance, i think ibm need to add this facility in new version.
12 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Build a Informix HQ server Container

The current process for deploying Informix HQ servers and agents across 600+ sites involves manually redoing scripts and configuration files for each site. This process is time-consuming, error-prone, and difficult to scale as it requires individu...
12 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

Support local authentication method to manage credentials on DB2 using Hashicorp Vault

Customers who are using local authentication for Informix need a way to utilize the password management features for Hashicorp Vault https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/secrets/databases/db2
about 1 year ago in Db2 0 Submitted

Unable to see fully qualified name in a trigger for seme instance

we have created as view using fully qualified name but while getting schema it is not showing complete DB address. scenario is given below. create table test_table ( col1 int, col2 varchar(20),col3 datetime year to second default current year to s...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Make range fragmentation work on high-write systems

Our application is INCREDIBLY write-heavy with highly transient data. Frankly, it doesn't even belong in Informix at all; it ought to be in something like MongoDB or even an in-memory DB. [I'm not kidding: 75-90K inserts per minute, involving BYTE...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

InformixHQ - heatmap - feature

Hello, Recently, during heavy load on an Informix Database, we noticed that there were some sessions that are using high IO Activity. We were using AGS Sentinel and was able to see these sessions in RED colour in a heatmap (see attached). It will ...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Under review