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Informix Server

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Informix auditing (onaudit) should be able to record feprogram with the "start session" event

In 11.70 (or earlier) IBM enhanced the client tools and server so that a string for the "front end program" is sent to the server. This can be seen in the syssessions table if a compatible Client SDK or IConnect is used. It would be very useful fo...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Allow dropping of distributions on specific columns; today it is only possible to drop all distributions on a table

We have a large system of many Tbs and as a legacy of Art Kagel's "dostats" we have distributions on all columns of all tables. These distributions are not needed and we have to spend considerable database resources keeping these up to date. We'd ...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Improve performance of L1/L2 backups

Current, for L1 (or L2) backups we need to read all pages. This is highly inefficient and there are alternatives for implementing this.In the PMR we've been told this matches old FEA idsdb00010525. In this the proposed solution was to maintain a t...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

DDL support through Informix Change Data Capture

REQUIREMENTS FOR DDL SUPPORT FOR INFORMIX THROUGH CHANGE DATA CAPTURE (CDC): As of now Informix Change Data Capture supports only DML operations. DDL is not supported through CDC. Operations to be supported: ---------------------------------------...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow triggers install/updates without taking an outage for the box

Currently to install new triggers on a table or update triggers on a table requires outage for the box which impacts our end user customer. Our operations are 24X7X365 and don't have any outage window to work with.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Functionality already exists

SHOW VARY RESULTS WITH BATCHEDREAD_INDEX

support team reply this is work as Informix design, but from customer view, they cannot accept. CIB want IBM to review this issue, hope IBM can change the design.
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Informix Multi Instance on zVM

SYSTEM: Informix on zLinux on ZVM 6.1 zLinux 11.2Action: Multi Instance (Residency) performance issues Informix Enterprise server is used for our Electronic Court system at the State of Mississippi. In order to save cost on system resources we dec...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Clear text passwords are displayed in onstat -g sql/ses commands for Informix user account create/modify user SQL commands

When using USERMAPPING feature to create internal Informix user accounts, it was found the SQL command executed to create an account or modify the password of an existing account is displayed in the output of onstat -g ses and onstat -g sql. Also ...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Would like OPT_SEEK_FACTOR as a session set environment option

In 11.70, a new "seek cost" component for index costing was introduced, the purpose of which was to more accurately reflect the cost for seeking in an index scan (when index is not clustered) for large indexes. OPT_SEEK_FACTOR is an undocumented O...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Enable READ ONLY access to DB2 from Informix using DRDA protocol

This is request for Wal-Mart , we have 100s of Informix gateway manager installed (DRDA) to join quries Informix and DB2 database.
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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