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Informix Server

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Smart Trigger API for Java to monitor smart trigger session changes at the backend DB

The Smart Trigger Java library allows for the use of a detachable session which is assigned a session ID. One can use this session ID to reconnect to an existing session when starting up a Smart Trigger. But, if for some reason this session ID in ...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Add onconfig parameter to not allow slow alters.

Add an onconfig parameter so that slow alters are not allowed by default. This is to prevent outages for customers from long transaction rollbacks.
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Internal hash tables - remove limit on amount of data.

As per case TS006348841 currently internal hash tables have a limitation on the amount of data that can be copied into the internal hash table "At the end all the rows/columns must be copied into a hash table. And this is too much data." E.g. A gr...
6 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Better checkpoint flush statistics

Improve checkpoint flush statistics to show storage performance issues better.
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow defining rolling container windows defined on user defined calendars

Currently time series rolling window containers can only be defined to use a predetermined set of calendars to define the number of time points included in each window. Those are: day, week, month, and year. There is a need for more flexibility. T...
about 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add sql causing change when dictionary entries become dirty.

When onstat -g dic entries become dirty add sql causing this to the onstat -g dic output.This would allow diagnosing issues better. This does not need to be persisted to storage. When sysprocplan entries become invalid this would also allow diagno...
6 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Informix ER: Increase maximum allowed replicates

Our customer uses Enterprise Replication with Informix Server, spanning 530 databases, within 60 instances. We use 11.70 GE. We have hit the maximum limitation of 32746 replicates in the ER domain and it's not enough. We even had to decrease count...
about 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Config for the server to refuse to start if shared memory segments do not use huge pages.

When shared memory segments are not using huge pages there can be performance impact I would like an option for the engine to abort startup similar to FULL_DISK_INIT=0 if huge pages cannot be used for shared memory segments. Scenario: sysmaster sy...
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

MSG_DATE format should follow $DBDATE if defined

Several customers would like the format of the date written to online.log when we have the MSG_DATE parameter defined/activated to follow the format of DBDATE.Currently it seems to follow the American standard (MONTH / DAY / YEAR2).
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

oncheck should report all bad rowids in an index.

oncheck should report all bad rowids in an index. Current oncheck stops at the first bad rowid, this makes it impossible to tell if there is more than 1 bad rowid in an index.
7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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