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Informix

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Consolidate free space across entire chunk or dbspace

I suggest a repack-like tool which consolidates free space in an entire chunk or dbspace in order to get few, big enough, free spaces to use efficiently. Being able to do so online and with little blocking is desirable
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Add dbschema to Informix CSDK

Developers have the Informix Client SDK installed on their workstations / application development machines. There is the need to be able to dump the Informix databases schemas definitions, but the SDK does not provide any such tool. To work arou...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Only in-memory Temp table

Temporary table only cached in the memory, it does not to write into the temp dbspace.Requirement from China mobile (CMCC), CMCC use lots of temp table in the following 2 ways:Create temp table ... with no log; select * from tab into temp tabname ...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Modernize dbexport/dbimport and control them from HQ

dbexport and dbimport are useful tools, very easy to use and straight forward. but as the database are growing exponentially, the tool is showing its limitations and a workaroud must be generally be applied, which are kind of time consuming to wri...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 3 Not under consideration

Use of Adobe Flash in OAT is a security problem, please migrate to HTML5

OAT makes heavy use of Adobe Flash. Flash is an increasing security problem and not supported on all client platforms. HTML 5 is an alternative and should be used instead.
about 8 years ago in Informix 1 Not under consideration

Allow placement of tablespace BYTE and TEXT data in a separate dbspace from the table's base row data.

Allow specifying a normal dbspace for a BYTE or TEXT column to isolate IOs for the blob data from main row data for the table. This would be logged space just like IN TABLE as opposed to IN blobspace blob pages.
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Table level restore

To enhance functionality of ontape/onbar utility to enable table level restore.
almost 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Enable defined limits on sqltrace

We would like to see the ability to add limits when enabling sqltrace to limit it to only trace by specific requirements. The basic one, which this alone would make a huge difference would be the ability to list one or more tables and only have it...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Full HDR switch between primary and secondary with a single command and without any downtime

We have 2 servers with 2 HDR instances each. For each cluster we have also 2 connection manager each. On server one there is the primary of cluster 1 and the secondary of cluster 2 On server two there is the primary of cluster 2 and the seconda...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add command to move data from a chunk to remove it

Add a command , at onspaces or sql task() , to force free a chunk, moving the data to another chunks with available space at same dbspace.With that will allow to exclude the cleared chunk from the dbspace.
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

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