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Search results: Informix Server

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    enhancements to sysprocedures table and dbschema utility

    Currently, there does not appear to be anything in the sysprocedures table to identify which procedures are provided by Informix (system routines) vs those created by users (user routines). The mode column does not appear to address this particula...
    over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    Enhance availability of readahead performance details

    With the ubiquity of intelligent storage, the value of readahead in the Informix server is reduced and excessive readahead can be detrimental to performance. However, since the introduction of the AUTO_READAHEAD parameter and the associated change...
    about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Delivered

    Unload to file should have option that prevents over writing of an existing file

    A customer writes some SQL that captures the pre-data to an unload file and then does the updates/deletes etc. If the SQL is successful and inadvertently run again the initial pre-data will be lost.
    over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Future consideration

    A tool to copy statistics between environments

    A tool to copy statistics between environments, currently this has to be done manually in an unsupported way. This would also allow refreshing statistics on a copy of the environment without needing to refresh the schema e.g . nightly copies. Also...
    over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    allow distributed queries when BLOBs involved

    When trying to reference a table which contains a BLOB data type using syntax ddbb@dbservername:table, the following error is returned: error 9270: Type (informix.blob) is unsupported in distributed queries.
    about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Character length semantics instead of byte length semantics

    We want to store UTF8 text data into our database but using byte length semantics is counter intuitive on the char and varchar types. We are using Fourj's Genero tool to develop our application and Genero is able to switch to character length sema...
    over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Future consideration

    Add command to move data from a chunk to remove it

    Add a command , at onspaces or sql task() , to force free a chunk, moving the data to another chunks with available space at same dbspace.With that will allow to exclude the cleared chunk from the dbspace.
    over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

    Allow "group commit" as other RDBMS

    For high use OLTP systems, there can be a lot of I/O pressure on the logical log due to intense rate of logical log buffer flushing (most customer don't ant data loss so they use UNBUFFERED LOG). Setting BUFFERED LOG at session level would hardly ...
    almost 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Future 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...
    about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    Identify/log slow queries on a busy system

    SQLTrace offers the DBA the tooling required to monitor a user session. However its difficult to monitor heavily used systems. For example one needs to have a buffer large enough to store 90 seconds of SQL queries (small lookup SQL's consume the b...
    over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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