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Informix Server

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Allow setting of environment variable (e.g. PSORT_DBTEMP) in AUS.

Sometimes tables are too big that the allocated temporary dbspaces are not enough and AUS fails updating statistics in high mode. The temporary dbspaces are sufficient under normal use so adding more space to temporary dspaces is not ideal.
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow BACKUP_FILTER to be set by onmode command

Informix version 12.10.FC13 - on Solaris server I want to use different BACKUP_FILTER settings for onbar and ontape. I use onbar for daily backups and logs and ontape for syncing RSS. For onbar - BACKUP_FILTER = /opt/csw/bin/pigz -1 -p 2 -b 25...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow genBSON to process a MULTISET datatype

Our problem is to get complex data from the server in the fastest way. Usually, getting data from a parent -> child relation ships, should be done programatically iterating thru multiple resultsets and getting data one by one. Network overhead ...
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

PN_STAGEBLOB_THRESHOLD - Set to 1Mb when first table containing BYTE or TEXT is partitioned by Round Robin

Currently, the PN_STAGEBLOB_THRESHOLD onconfig parameter is not present in the standard onconfig file, therefore it defaults to zero. It's absence also means that most DBAs will not be aware of its existence and the potential pain they are in for...
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Extend currently allow maximum ER replicate count from 65,536 to 262,144 max limit.

We are an ERP based vendor and we maintain more than 2,500 tables per single database. Some of our bigger costomers maintain around 100 such required databases for various activities. We are planning to migrate/upgrade our customer servers with ne...
over 4 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...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Planned for future release

Shorten the time spent by "onstat -z" when zeroing internal structures

As was diagnosed in ticket TS002495910, in customer's system "onstat -z" processing is causing about 1 second "block" every 5 minutes for all threads, that needed to acquire the global mutex. This causes problems in customer's system (one of the l...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

create a foreign key allowing one to one tables relationships

Our Primary Key and Foreign key constraints always have allowed creaing and ensuring '1 to many' table relationships. After researching, there is no direct way to implement such a case with Informix. The only safe way is to create a primary key on...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

log capture from Read only secondary / updatable secondary

Currently I can on;y read log data from primary for CDC. I woule like to request I read the transaction logs from read only secondary server (and not primary) as Informix source for CDC and apply to target.
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0

Informix HQ should have a dark theme like grafana

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almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Planned for future release