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Informix

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Upgrade without outage in HDR environment

Upgrading without an outage in an HDR environment is a big deal when rolling out upgrades in the HDR environment. With the conversion from 12.10.FC4 to 12.10.FC5 we will have a failover and thats it! Thats a HUGE win for the product but I need thi...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Keep ISQL, C4GL, and R4GL installation and run time > compatible with being installed in the same INFORMIXDIR with all > cu

Keep ISQL, C4GL, and R4GL installation and run time > compatible with being installed in the same INFORMIXDIR with all > currently supported Informix Dynamic Server database server software and CSDK releases Changing this functionality will ...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Alter table / table schema change timestamp in systables (or sysmaster)

systables shows the creation date of a table. It would be useful to DBA's if alter date/time were shown also. At times we want to know when a table was altered. I provided a PMR number above as one scenario where this information was needed but th...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

change serial rowid type to serial8 avoiding to reach its limit?

Serial rowids are fields in a table and are assigned to tables created with the WITH ROWID option. serial type has a smaller value scope thn serial 8, it forces customer to re-create the tables when the limit is reached
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

UTC/GMT timestamp conversion function for Informix database

Informix does not have a UTC/GMT timestamp conversion function. Requirement :---------------------------------1) Cast function to convert from a particular datetime to UTC datetime based on the current timezone2) Cast function to convert from sysd...
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Working system-calls from sysadmin tasks with Informix for Windows

Automatic Backup Tasks started from within the sysadmin-scheduler don't work on windows systems. The same problem with every other system-call. This is a Windows-specific problem. On Linux systems this works as intended.
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

ENABLE ONCHECK DATA CROSS-CHECKING FOR FUNCTIONAL INDEX

oncheck -cI on a functional index still says:"Non vanilla index. data crosschecking not enabled" After so many years supporting functional indices we should consider enabling this. I had a customer with a corruption in a functional index on a huge...
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Redbrick ODBC driver Certified for Windows 10

Currently we are using following Redbrick driver version in our application, Redbrick 32-bit ODBC driver version: 5.63.00.90 Redbrick 64-bit ODBC driver version: 5.63.01.30 We know that the ODBC driver versions mentioned above works on Windows 7, ...
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Remove the physical storage limitations on Innovator-C

At release of Informix Innovator-C Edition 11.70 xc5, a large number of functionality has been withdrawn ( ER and more), as well as new ressource limitations have been implemented or inreased, such as limitation to 1 CPU vp for instance. We think ...
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Killl a Query on the IWA

I would like to be able to kill a query currently being processed by the IWA accelerator using an ondwa command.
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration