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Search results: Informix Client Products

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Ability to rotate log files with Connection manager

At the moment the informix connection manager keeps a constant handle on it's log files You cannot rotate logfiles without firts shutting down the connectin manager
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

JDBC suport of collection data types in scroll cursors

Currently the usage of collection data type columns in scroll cursors are disabled by default throwing an Exception with this stack trace. Stack trace returned is: at com.informix.util.IfxErrMsg.buildExceptionWithMessage(IfxErrMsg.java:416) at com...
9 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

SSO (Single Sign-On) for ODBC connections via ActiveDirectory authentication

The current configuration of a SSO (Single Sign-On) authentication for a Windows workstation is based on GSSCSM, for which support will be discontinued in future Informix releases and is very complex and error-prone. Alternatively, ODBC connection...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Under review

Informix Connection Manager should print full timestamp (%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S) in logfile

Informix oncmsm logfile does not print complete timestamp - only %H:%M:%SSo it is difficult to parse the logfile and get a complete timestamp with date+time.
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 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.
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

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 ...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

JDBC driver shouldn't require SSLCONNECTION to be set when SQLHOSTS is used

Currently, the Informix JDBC driver requires SSLCONNECTION=true for connection strings that involve a TLS database listener. But when SQLH_TYPE and SQLH_FILE are set, the sqlhosts file already contains this information in the protocol field; it th...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

Certification of Informix Connection Manager with ESQL/COBOL

We are implementing Informix Connection manager with HDR as High Availability solution for our organization. During testing, we identified connection manager is not certified for ESQL/Cobol, our business-critical application is written in Cobol. i...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 3 Not under consideration

Informix native driver for Go programming language

We need an Informix native driver for the Go programming language.
about 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Remove CHAR Space Padding In ODBC Driver 4.10

Other drivers (Informix JDBC / Open Link etc) have the ability to automatically TRIM trailing spaces from character fields - we badly need the same feature applied to ODBC. We note that the VARCHAR / NVARCHAR equivalent has just been added to ODBC...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration