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Informix Server

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remove or enlarge the data page limitation per fragment

when the total pages per fragment reach 16775134, the new data can't insert.the customer have to :1,stop the application 2,fragment the table3,reload the data 4,create the index 5, start the application
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Handling unsupported characters

Suppose an application tries to insert a character that is not supported by DB_LOCALE. Then instead of throwing an error, a pre-defined character (e.g. an inverted question mark "¿") should be inserted.
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

TS Rolling Window Containers dropping dormant window should be similar to DETACH FRAGMENT

When a dormant fragment is removed the data is gone for good, unless you manually unload to a new table or flat file. On large TS this is very time and disk restrictive. It is also hard to coordinate on embedded systems
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Dropping Primary Keys

Allow the following syntax for dropping a primary key : alter table table-name drop primary key;
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Function to move sysadmin database

Product : IDS 12.10We like to have a build APIto move sysadmin database from 1 dbspace to another.Currently we are using execute function task ("reset sysadmin",);And this will reset the entire database. We found out lately, multitenant database i...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

ADD CHUNK' OPERATION SHOULD RETURN WARNING THAT LEVEL 0 ARCHIVE NEEDS TO BE DONE

An 'add dbspace' operation returns the following warning upon completion: ** WARNING ** A level 0 archive of Root DBSpace will need to be done. An 'add chunk' operation just returns 'chunk successfully added'. An 'add chunk' operation should also ...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Communications Buffer Monitoring Support (CBMS) feature on Informix V11.7

Request to back port Informix internal RTC # 22663 to V11.7 Feature abstract :IBM Infosphere Guardium provides a database auditing solution that reads the traffic between the database server and clients. It is prevented from analyzing the communic...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add table name to -640 error.

Add tablename to -640 error.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow dropping of distributions on specific columns; today it is only possible to drop all distributions on a table

We have a large system of many Tbs and as a legacy of Art Kagel's "dostats" we have distributions on all columns of all tables. These distributions are not needed and we have to spend considerable database resources keeping these up to date. We'd ...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Would like OPT_SEEK_FACTOR as a session set environment option

In 11.70, a new "seek cost" component for index costing was introduced, the purpose of which was to more accurately reflect the cost for seeking in an index scan (when index is not clustered) for large indexes. OPT_SEEK_FACTOR is an undocumented O...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration