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Informix

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Enterprise Gateway Manager support for Oracle 12c

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about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 2 Delivered

Integrate user authentication among IDS/JSON/REST

Presently, the only way to authenticate users to the REST listener is by setting up mapped users and using PAM, which limits things to the Mongo 2.6 API and earlier. It also prevents having seamless user access for hybrid applications that sometim...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Compatibility to MySQL SQL Syntax - Omit unnecessary FROM Clause

MySQL provides some SQL syntax features which Informix does not provide. One example the customer mentioned was the possibility to omit the FROM clause: SELECT 4+5 ; Using Informix a from clause is necessary: SELECT 4+5 from sysmaster:sysdual;
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Mechanism needed to limit shared memory dumping per instance, similar to the per session limit available now

Shared memory dumping is disruptive in a production environment, particularly if the shared memory size is large. In our environment, many sessions can simultaneously encounter the same issue and so we are open to many shared memory dumps occurrin...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Certify Informix 4GL 7.51.FC2 on RHEL 8

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/informix-4gl-system-requirements per this web page, there are no versions of informix 4GL certified on RHEL8. Can you update this with RHEL8 information? In particular, we need 7.51.FC2 certified so that we can up...
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Delivered

Official support for IDS on Alma Linux

Following the recent change in status of Centos, some customers may wish to convert their Informix servers to Alma Linux soon. This will be for both IDS 12.10 and 14.10. Can IBM/HCL certify this platform.
12 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

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...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Delivered

ER async triggers shall support ‘userid’ and ‘session id’ of the user who made the change

ER async triggers shall support ‘userid’ and ‘session id’ of the user who made the change; already have support for this in smart triggers. Similar support needed for async triggers as well.
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Display more Information while performing actions on spaces in informixHQ

All actions than can be performed on spaces in informixHQ (i. expand, etc.) show very meager information on the space. Please display at least the actual size that is going to expanded. More details on the space one is working on is helpful. OAT i...
almost 5 years ago in Informix 1 Delivered

4GL - ARGO Nihonbashi Building, 5-14 Nihonbashi-hakozaki-cho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0015 JAPAN

Informix 4GL Compiler runtime and SQL runtime(Execution environment and Development environment) AIX v7.2 support request.
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Delivered