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Search results: Informix Server

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Column encryption, select rows with different passwords without errors

When using char/varchar columns with the option of encryption each user can choose his own password and more worse multiple passwords. All is well in case I read the data without decrypt() then I see the raw data for encrypected data and the real ...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

determine length of data stored in smartblob

Just because data is stored as a smartblob not blob, we have to go to a work around solution to get "LENGTH" of blob stored. By using length(smartblob) the amount of bytes stored in the smartblob should be returned. The LENGTH function works if ...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Functionality already exists

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 becau...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Prevent ER sync job of deleting records from child table on target

After talk with lab and support group the follwoing became clear: Under certain circumstances ER sync job can delete data from tables even if these tables are not part of the ER system. When a replicated table (target) has an unique index on a non...
about 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

External Tables - export whole database

There should be a functionality to create external tables automatically for all tables in a database, similar to dbexport or onpladm. Unfortunately, not all data types support external tables fully (timeseries, for example). Datablade data types s...
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Delivered

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...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

ER CDR Sync for local reorg

A means to use cdr sync internal to an instance. I am looking to use golden gate to do an informix reorg because it can validate that the data is insync between two tables but if "cdr sync" could work from an instance to the same instance then I c...
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

use spatial datatypes and functions from another database

Using spatial functions is limited to the database in which it is defined. If you have to combine a spatial function with spatial data in 2 different databases you first need to convert 1 datatype to varchar. This is slowing down the performance.
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Informix HQ Enhancement

When using out of the box sensors, or creating your own custom sensor, it would be helpful to have the ability to specify a time of day to run the sensor. A real world example. Our software give customers the ability to create their own queries. W...
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

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