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Informix Server

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dbimport support for tenant databases

The database which is exported by dbexport is not possible to import as tenant database by dbimport. In the current implementation, the tenant database should be created by SQL Admin API first. dbimport is by default creating the new database as t...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Not under consideration

Informix cluser technology

when running the write application on the SDS node, the performance is very bad. and customer hope to change the architecture. with oracle RAC and DB2 purescale, the customer could run the different application (for example one is CRM, the other i...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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

Implement INLIST_TO_NLJN in Informix

Implement INLIST_TO_NLJN in Informix
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 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

oncheck should check the Timeseries data associated with a table

From the docs 'Use the oncheck utility to check specified disk structures for inconsistencies, repair inconsistent index structures, and display information about disk structures.' However, if a table has TimeSeries data associated with it the TS ...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add functionality to speed up reading pages into buffers

Add functionality to speed up reading pages into buffers This RFE is logged because a performance problem arise with IBM Cognos software with Informix. The business complaints that when the first runner of a report runs in 20minutes and subsequent...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Remove limitation on TEXT and CLOB datatype to have the same functionality as LVARCHAR

Remove limitation on TEXT and CLOB datatype to have the same functionality as LVARCHAR.
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Informix support for Oracle Linux (RHCK)

Request Informix IDS v11 FC9 support for Oracle Linux (Red Hat Compatible Kernel) version 6.5 X86-64 bit.
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

allow repack of TBLSpace extents

When a database has been created in a single (not root) dbspace and the dbspace has been greatly expanded with large tables that are subsequently moved to separate dbspace, the chunks used for original dbspace expansion may contain TBLSpace extent...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration