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Informix

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deliver customer report like Oracle AWR

Provide SQL statistics and Latch statistics for performance tuning, customer understand those information more easy. most customer don't understand the output of "onstat -g spi" .
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

External Tables - export whole database

There should be a functionality to create external tables automatically for all tables in a database, similar to dbexport or onpladm. Unfortunately, not all data types support external tables fully (timeseries, for example). Datablade data types s...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Delivered

informix enterprise under SLES15

We would like to know when it's the earliest date for SLES15 to be officially supported for Informix enterprise
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

improve RSS performance tuning,avoid the fault of informix DR active-active solution.

Resolve the RSS Apply performance problem,the apply speed of RSS is the same with primary that generate the logical log.
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Need the ability to increase the number of logical log buffers from 3 to handle peak transaction loads

Currently there are three logical log buffers. When transaction load increases sometimes all three logical log buffers are being flushed, especially in an unbuffered logged database environment. In such an environment increasing the size of the lo...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Delivered

Integrate user authentication among IDS/JSON/REST

Presently, the only way to authenticate users to the REST listener is by setting up mapped users and using PAM, which limits things to the Mongo 2.6 API and earlier. It also prevents having seamless user access for hybrid applications that sometim...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

4GL - ARGO Nihonbashi Building, 5-14 Nihonbashi-hakozaki-cho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0015 JAPAN

Informix 4GL Compiler runtime and SQL runtime(Execution environment and Development environment) AIX v7.2 support request.
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Delivered

temp Dbspace in RAM

We make high use of temp. Tables in our applications. With todays hardware availability it seems reasonable to me to hold the complete tmp. dbspace in the RAM (or RAMDISK). Unfortunately this is not supported by Informix IDS directly. Advantages o...
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Delivered

Encryption for Informix backup.

Informix 12.10 fc8 has file level encryption available in the database. However, from my understanding if you do a backup, this file in not encrypted. Can we have a method to perform a databack that keeps the encryption in the backup data.
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

ER CDR Sync for local reorg

A means to use cdr sync internal to an instance. I am looking to use golden gate to do an informix reorg because it can validate that the data is insync between two tables but if "cdr sync" could work from an instance to the same instance then I c...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered