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Automatic Statistics table exclusion list

We have a 3 billion row table that we would like to remove from AUS selection and manually run statistics as it is failing due to exhausting the 48Gb of sort disk
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Create an InformixHQ sensor to obtain the slowest queries directly from InformixHQ repository instead local SQLTRACE on the instance..

Complementing idea INFX-I-557, it would be great if we may have the report of the heaviest/slowest queries from the InformixHQ repository, instead the local SQLTRACE tables.
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Create an Informix-HQ sensor that populates an historical data table with the slowest/heaviest queries on an instance.

SQLTRACE has proved been a valuable resource to identify slow/heavy queries. An even sysadmin may store a history of the SQLTRACE output, it would be great to have a filter for the heaviest/slowest queries, and store them as a sensor of Informix-HQ.
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Backup on RSS - option to allow with raw tables.

The new 14.10.FC6 feature to be able to run backups on an RSS node would be useful to reduce load on the Primary. We would like an onconfig parameter to allow backups on the RSS even when there are raw tables. We would expect the raw tables to hav...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Delivered

Make changes in the Informix backup process using onbar

Hi,i am using onbar utility to take backup of 4TB database using 12 threads and it took 8-9 hours for complete 0 level . i feel IBM needs to make changes in the Informix backup process. Whenever backup of a dbspace is in progress and if that dbspa...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under 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: ---------------------------------------...
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Oracel "select any table" feature

Customer need a read only user to do the extract in the data warehouse project or to do the monitor. With the 'select any table' privilege , after customer create some new table,that user only have the read only privilege on those new tables.
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

IDS 12.10 syspurge enhancement

Description: We are experiencing locking errors during IBM Informix Dynamic Server syspurge causing a failure to complete syspurge specifically with tables using interval fragmentation. We understand that currently IBM cannot guarantee that there...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

rsccompdict table shrink

When using compression in informix products, a special rsccompdict table is created to store dictionaries.This table can be a big one and it is stored at dbspace level.When you drop some databases, tables, purge dictionaries, this table can be emp...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

DDL Event Triggers

It would be good to have some kind of 'triggers' that's been activated every time when database object such as table or stored procedure is beind modifyed ( created, dropped or changed)It seems to me it could be some kind of system routines simila...
over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration