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Informix Server

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Secure the Wire Listener: Stop requiring clear text passwords

Currently, the only way to secure the wire listener is to put clear text passwords in the jsonListener.properties file. This is true both for the JDBC connection to the database and for the SSL keystore. There needs to be a way to keep those clear...
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

HPL jobs freeze when changing index setting

Problem description and business impact When HPL is used to load a table with indexes, it does a set indexes filtering before the loading of the table and does a set indexes enable after the loading. If I have 1000 tables to load, what I would rat...
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect (TSM) version 7.1.7 certification with Informix ONBAR 12.10

Customers using earlier versions for TSM (now Spectrum Protect) needs certification of version 7.1.7 or newer with Informix ONBAR 12.10, in order to be able to upgrade the backup infrastructure.
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Improve CREATE SCHEMA AUTHORIZATION statement to allow encapsulation of any DDL command

Currently CREATE SCHEMA AUTHORIZATION can be used to encapsulate some DDL statements (see https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGU8G_12.1.0/com.ibm.sqls.doc/ids_sqs_0483.htm) We would like this to be expanded to include other DDL statem...
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add Informix/onbar in the list of VEEAM Enterprise Backup Solution supported platforms

VEEAM is a fast growing Enterprise Backup solution. As of today, Informix is not part of VEEAM's supported DBMS, but should be supported before decision makers choose other DBMS platforms.
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Improvements to UPDATE STATISTICS LOW

The run time of UPDATE STATISTICS LOW can be reduced by setting the parameter USTLOW_SAMPLE which also reduces I/O by using a sampling algorithm. However the table data may be deemed to be too heavily skewed and the engine falls back to a full sca...
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

create indexes for external tables

External tables are a great asset for ETL, and extending a bit the concept, they could be the base for a great ETL client.Often, one external table is the source of several ETL tasks, therefore it must be read sequentially several times, even if t...
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

select task('onstat','-g mem') ONLY returns first 30k (Currently Hardcoded in code)

When executing a select when you want to run and "onstat" command, it only displays the first 30k and the message 'Truncating message at 30KB\ ' is displayed.Currently it is hardcoded.
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Appendable External Tables

Need an option to open/create an external table that appends to the file(s) defined on the table on insert rather than overwriting the file(s).
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

When using onsmsync, the -t option should ONLY query Storage Manager for objects that fit criteria

It appears based on logs from storage manager that when the -t flag is used in onsmsync that the Storage Manager is queried for all objects residing in the sysutils database, and not just for those objects that are greater than the date time value...
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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