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Search results: Informix Client Products

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CM should support majority-vote failover arbitration as an alternative to priority-based

Currently, the Informix Connection Manager handles failover arbitration on the basis of a priority setting in the ${CMCONFIG} file. This has the effect of making a single CM the judge, jury and executioner when it comes to failover events. And it ...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

Support IDataReader::GetBytes / IfxDataReader::GetBytes for BSON fields

We're using the BSON capabilities of the Informix server in order to store data in a separate BSON colum - like additional information for the data row or optional fields that may vary from row to row (e.g. translations to different languages). Wi...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 3 Not under consideration

Connection Manager Support for all Possible connection types (DRDA/SQLI/Mongo API/REST)

Connection manager needs to connect and function with all of the informix data not just the DRDA and SQL data portions.
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Add support for SQL_CONVERT functions as part of the CSDK

All major database vendors support it and it allows for applications to easily convert a value from one data type to another and process date/time values.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

LOAD data in batch mode with DATASTUDIO

When you must populate many tables I'd like to load data with datastudio using a batch command from command line
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

Customer requesting JSON data type support in 4GL

Two customer using 4GL as main development system, request support for JSON variables or JSON casting in 4GL for being able to use BSON columns in 4GL.
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Connection pooling should not lock databases if all connections are closed

In case connection pooling is enabled in the driver (no matter if using ODBC, .NET Provider or the .NET Core provider), the driver keeps connections from the pool open to the database server in order for a faster reconnect in the applications. Any...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

Provision in CDC API to read the transactional data from archived/backed-up Informix logical logs?

I understand that CDC API can be used to read the transactional data from any of the active informix logical logs.Do we have a provision to read the transactional data from archived/backed-up Informix logical logs? If no, I would like to log an en...
almost 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Support for ADO.net

In the context of BI tools (SiSense, Power-BI) it is quite frustrating to use Inormix databases as primary data source and it would be valuable to have also ADO.net.
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Support for multiple SBSPACEs for LOBS (IBM Data Server Driver)

Our product uses smart CLOB and BLOB fields. Due to their size, they are split among multiple SBSPACEs. The classic Informix Provider for ADO.NET supports multiple SBSPACEs with methods such as "conn.GetIfxClob(tableName, columnName);". The Data S...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

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