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Informix

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Clear text passwords are displayed in onstat -g sql/ses commands for Informix user account create/modify user SQL commands

When using USERMAPPING feature to create internal Informix user accounts, it was found the SQL command executed to create an account or modify the password of an existing account is displayed in the output of onstat -g ses and onstat -g sql. Also ...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

SYSSQLTRACE SHOULD STORE HOST VARIABLES VALUE

When trying to use SQLTRACE to audit queries, in HIGH Mode, host variables are not saved in the system catalog syssqltrace table, but in the onstat -g his output. Customer needs that information in the system tables as their audit job, loads syssq...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

byte and text partitioning

Ability to partition byte and text data stored in blobspace. Eg. create table table1 (,,, colx byte in (blobspc1, blobspc2) ) ... This allows the byte/text data to be partitioned across multiple blobspace so that the blobspace size will not be sk...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Support for ADO.net

In the context of BI tools (SiSense, Power-BI) it is quite frustrating to use Inormix databases as primary data source and it would be valuable to have also ADO.net.
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

TBLSpace can not be sized on temporary tables

Trying to use -ef and -en to size the TBLSpace on a system that use a lot to temp tables but the command fails. This is correct functionaility. Various docs/presentation etc existing stating that better performance can be gained from sizing the TB...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

For lock spinslocks show if loops are for read or writes

When reviewing onstat -g spi for lock spinlocks e.g. Num Waits Num Loops Avg Loop/Wait Name 433407 127960809035 295243.98 fast mutex, lockhash[712] I would be great to know if this access is for reading or writing so we can determine if this is ap...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

For buffer spinslocks show if loops are for read or writes

When reviewing onstat -g spi for buffer spinlocks e.g. fast mutex, 3:bf[1024] fast mutex, 3:bhash It would be great if we could tell if this is from either: a) Read access i.e. more app caching/better query plans/more data archiving+purgin needed ...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Provision in CDC API to read the transactional data from archived/backed-up Informix logical logs?

I understand that CDC API can be used to read the transactional data from any of the active informix logical logs.Do we have a provision to read the transactional data from archived/backed-up Informix logical logs? If no, I would like to log an en...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

SETNET32 automatically maintain the SQLHOSTS file

Behaviour in SDK 4.1Fc1 and TC1 is changed . In previous version of windows SDK connectivity details were taken from registry ( setnet32 updates registry) but in SDK 4.10 Fc1/TC1 there is need to setup sqlhosts file apart from setting setnet32 . W...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

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...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration