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Informix

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Avoid UPDATE STATISTICS [LOW] sampling failures due to data skew

If onconfig parameter USTLOW_SAMPLE is set, sampling will be used for all UPDATE STATISTICS LOW commands. On some tables this will always or nearly always fail due to data skew, printing a message like: Warning: update statistics low using samplin...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

ifxclone to not change BUFFERPOOLS

ifxclone to not change BUFFERPOOLS when running.
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add onstat -g vpcache detail to show breakdown of usage e.g. smx buffers

. When the vp-cache grows to gigabytes we need to see why it is growing. Currently shared memory dumps have to be sent to HCL for analysis. Propose 'onstat -g vpcache detail' to show what the vpcache on each cpu vp is being used for e.g. smx buffers.
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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

Dbexport/dbimport validate *_LOCALE vars before accessing data files

When working with UTF8 database, DB_LOCALE and CLIENT_LOCALE are required to interact correctly with the databases. This RFE is about issuing a warning to the DBA when doing a dbexport/dbimport with CLIENT_LOCALE unset, especially when DB_LOCALE i...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Add MPP/DPF/XPS Clustering to Informix

DB2 has MPP/DPF, Oracle has RAC, Sybase has Cluster Edition. Informix used to have XPS, where is the ability to scale out Informix?
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

NUMA aware memory allocations.

In a system with more one NUMA node sometimes best to have all memory allocated on the first NUMA node for performance. E.g. With 2 NUMA nodes with 300Gb each, pin the lowest number CPU VPs pinned to the first NUMA node and allocate all hugepages...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

informixhq Relate Dashbords Query with timestamp filter

InformixHQ allows you to visualize moments of stress but not to identify the queries that caused them. If we have registered the query history we can relate it to the peak of stress. It is solved simply by allowing to relate (timestamp) in the pan...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

For RSS and HDR nodes partition the apply work by transaction id instead of partnum.

For RSS and HDR nodes currently the apply work is partitioned across threads by partnum, We would like the option to partition the work across apply threads by transaction id. Currently RSS apply threads have to syncronise with the other apply...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Enhancement to DROP PROCEDURE / DROP FUNCTION syntax

Currently, the DROP PROCEDURE statement requires that the all of the procedure parameters necessary to completely identify the specific procedure. This is important due to Informix supporting polymorphic procedures, and is generally a good thing. ...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Not under consideration

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