Skip to Main Content
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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



ADD A NEW IDEA

Search results: Informix

Showing 36 of 281

Permit blocking checkpoints on secondary nodes when raw tables exist on the primary node.

Currently we cannot issue a blocked checkpoint on a secondary (RSS in our case) when there exists raw tables on the primary node. We use raw tables heavily for admin jobs (mostly for the selection processing of archiving/purging jobs) to avoid swa...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Make onstat -g rss log buffer(s) size configurable.

I have run onstat -g rss log and are seeing 10% cache misses on some systems. I would like the underlying buffer space to be configurable similar to etc. As per our Lab Advocate: From my interpretation of the source the information displayed on th...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Lock table (or database) in exclusive mode does not work as expected in HDR

If one attempts to update a table with many rows in an HDR environment with updateable secondary code like this does not work (if you are on the primary):begin work; lock table mytab in exclusive mode; update mytab set col1="xxx" where 1=1; commit...
about 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

In a HDR cluster, be able to shut down the primary without triggering the auto-failover regardless DRAUTO setting and CM

In a HDR cluster, one should be able to shut down the primary instance without triggering the auto-failover regardless the setting of DRAUTO and the existence of connection managers. In DHL environment, there are scenarios that the primary instanc...
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add IF NOT EXISTS logic to ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT

alter table mytab add constraint if not exists foreign key .... alter table mytab add constraint if not exists primary key .... alter table mytab add constraint if exists drop constraint ....
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Backup on RSS - option to allow with raw tables.

The new 14.10.FC6 feature to be able to run backups on an RSS node would be useful to reduce load on the Primary. We would like an onconfig parameter to allow backups on the RSS even when there are raw tables. We would expect the raw tables to hav...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Delivered

onbar should be able to restore logs from primary AND HDR RO SECONDARY

... to prevent full backup after HDR primary/secondary switch ! At the moment (Version 12.10.xC14) cold restore after HDR primary/secondary switch is only working if:- both nodes have the same DBSERVERNAME/INFORMIXSERVER set because the namespace ...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

SQLHOSTS groups connect to non-primary

Include at SQLHOSTS options specific for groups to allow connection for non-pimary serversSomething like : conn_sec = 1 Then , the client will be able to connect at any server of the group, no matter if it is Primary / HDR / RSS / SDS. ... Today i...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow STOP_APPLY functionality when RSS is disconnected from the Primary

Currently Informix supports a Primary and multiple RSS servers. We have one of the RSS servers with the DELAY_APPLY config set to 12H and the 12 hours of logs get stored on the RSS server in the LOG_STAGING_DIR. Informix currently supports rolling...
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Planned for future release

DR repair index - Not applicable to RSS servers

We have an index corrupted as a result of applying a new fragmentation strategy. The index is fine on the primary but corrupted on both HDR and two RSS servers. The only way of fixing this index is to rebuild the index online which will take a hou...
about 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration