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    Allow placement of tablespace BYTE and TEXT data in a separate dbspace from the table's base row data.

    Allow specifying a normal dbspace for a BYTE or TEXT column to isolate IOs for the blob data from main row data for the table. This would be logged space just like IN TABLE as opposed to IN blobspace blob pages.
    over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Need an onmode option to terminate orphaned, tightly coupled global transactions. Onmode -Z does not address this case.

    If a Java application that uses tightly coupled global transactions (such as from Geronimo / WebSphere app servers) abnormally terminates, it may leave the global transaction orphaned on the Informix database server. In this case, an onstat -G wil...
    over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under 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

    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

    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

    Improvement in the check for high serial values

    I'm trying to check if a serial value has reached its upper limit. I noticed the following unpleasant behaviour. In the sysmaster tables sysptnhdr and sysactptnhdr the currently used serial values are in three fields for the datatypes serial, seri...
    over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

    Allow defining rolling container windows defined on user defined calendars

    Currently time series rolling window containers can only be defined to use a predetermined set of calendars to define the number of time points included in each window. Those are: day, week, month, and year. There is a need for more flexibility. T...
    over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Add constant to centralized Key of ER Consolidation Model

    We want to consolidate the data from our stores to one centralized server, but we can't modify the existing tables. Each store is identical. We need the consolidated model to have an additional value in the unique key of the centralized server of ...
    over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Implement Oracle "Flashback Database and Restore Points"

    Implement same functionality as Oracle Flashback Database and Restore Points. There regular procedure to restore data with Informix is to restore either the entire instance or some dbspaces. This procedure can be very long (5 hours+) when high dat...
    over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Fixing IPA in a 15TB OLTP database or large database

    We have a 15 TB size oltp db running in 12.10.FC12. We want to fix the data with pending IPA,however, we cannot use the traditional way due to : - we cannot put the DB offline for hours to fix the data with pending IPA and it will be between 5 to ...
    almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

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