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Informix

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Identify User created procedure

As per case opened with IBM 'TS005358731' , currently it is not possible to identify user created function/procedure . so kindly develop a mechanism to identify user and system related function/procedures.
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Show mapped paths in ontape restore

Customer has two instances in same server one "real" for production and one for development. Development instance data is synchronized from real data by restoring production instance ontape Level 0. As both are in the same server, a chunk mapping ...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Column level encryption, an option to cleanup passwords on certain/all rows for DBSO or Informix

All users which are granted permissions for insert/modify data into tables are also allowed to use their own password for column level data encryption. But not all user are their whole lifetime in the company and move. What happened with their ...
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

InformixHQ - Backup Sensor

I would kike InformixHQ Backup Sensor notify me whenever Backup Level 0 is greater than 24 (hours). But the Backup Sensor did not work with "hours format", just "timestamp", so It is impossible to know when the backup is older than 24 hours bec...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Create and use a BTS index over a temporary table.

drop table if exists tp01 ;create temp table tp01 ( nome varchar(100) ) with no log ;insert into tp01 select first 1000 tabname from systables ; create index i1_tp01 on tp01( nome bts_varchar_ops) using bts ; select * from tp01 where bts_contains ...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Optional expiration date for default role

In modern environments with a minimum need of data protection it is mandatory to set an expiration date to user accounts. Informix heavily depends on the user management of the underlying OS. In real life users have access to different database...
almost 5 years ago in Informix 1 Not under consideration

Switching SDS nodes without shutting down mode

Environment OS Version - > SUN SOLARIS 5.11 IDS Version - > 11.70 Two nodes SDS cluster Story : Assume 2 nodes in SDS (Node A - Primary / Node B - Secondary) 01. Assume current primary server (Node A) unavailable due to hardware fa...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Change ER replicant name

Within ER there is no cdr rename repl functionality.
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

OnBar selective space backup restore allow non-backup spaces online but empty

Most of our customer base rely on selective space OnBar backups. As 99% of our customer base have been used a concept called Copy live database to a test database under the same instance (obviously, with different database and DBspace name) for ev...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Informix PSM to sync the LLog IDs

Be able to synchronize the Object Id, with Logical Log IDs. At least to have a onpsm option to query the object ID by the Log Id, something like this: onpsm -L detail -l
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration