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Informix

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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

Lift 32K limit on SQL queries/results

SQL statements that exceed 32K in their collective data types currently crash. For example, if you select 10 LVARCHAR columns of 5000 each, totaling 50000 you get an error, crashing the application. This limit is way too low and it is causing our ...
over 4 years ago in Informix 1 Functionality already exists

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

Support query parameters in projection clause

See: https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5000z00001MLNI2AAP/db2parameter-not-working-with-merge-statement This works with DB2 according to IBM support staff.
over 4 years ago in Informix 0 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

No description provided
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Planned for future release

Support for ON UPDATE CASCADE

Use case: There is a table called release with a primary key id of type integer and an additional column name (the release name). And further tables (e.g. table_x, table_y, …) with a reference (foreign key) to release.id. The working tables are ta...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Future consideration

cleanup of ER structures if ER was not in use prior to utilizing 'cdr migrate server'

If Enterprise Replication did not exist prior to the execution of cdr migrate server, then the utility should as its last step, at user option, dismantle and remove all Enterprise Replication structures in the background that were created to do th...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

byte and text partitioning

Ability to partition byte and text data stored in blobspace. Eg. create table table1 (,,, colx byte in (blobspc1, blobspc2) ) ... This allows the byte/text data to be partitioned across multiple blobspace so that the blobspace size will not be sk...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration