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Ability to backup/clone a database across the network (redirected restore)(RIMS)

Verizon needs the capability to issue a set write suspend IO command on database. Get the data to another instance at another location and bring it up. Informix has this ability and Verizon likes it. This is called a redirected restore. Verizon's ...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Informix HTML datatype support across distributed queries

The type of HTML is not widely supported by other APIs other than WebDatablade. Therefore, when a query is made within a distributed query system, where user is inside database db1, and query with html column is made for database db2, below error ...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Free automatically allocated lock memory

Since Lock resource (memory) would be automatically allocated when Informix engine defect that it's not enough. But these memory will be existing forever once allocate, unless restart Informix engine. Could these automatically allocated memory cou...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

IWA Loading Information

I would like to be able to see the name of the datamart being loading through the Informix Warehouse Accelerator when I run the "ondwa tasks" command on the IWA server.
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Online.log could also print session detail of additional memory segment allocation

In high usage OLTP systems, it is a hard work to identify which session(s) is(are) demanding too much memory from the Informix engine.A good thing for us to help to identify abnormal programs execution/behaviour would be to print session details (...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Communications Buffer Monitoring Support (CBMS) feature on Informix V11.7

Request to back port Informix internal RTC # 22663 to V11.7 Feature abstract :IBM Infosphere Guardium provides a database auditing solution that reads the traffic between the database server and clients. It is prevented from analyzing the communic...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

support for snapshot isolation in .Net code

Microsoft already supports IsolationLevel.Snapshot in .Net code.Informix has LAST COMMITTED isolation level which is equivalent.For some reasons in .NET code IsolationLevel.Snapshot is not supported on Informix database. Also there is no way to se...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

make Informix JDBC driver JDBC 4 compliant

The Informix JDBC driver should be JDBC4 compliant. That means, no separate JARs for driver and XA-driver and the file „java.sql.Driver“ in the „META-INF/services/“ directory
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Delivered

Allow DBA to re-initialize OS process cache created by the resolver routines

This is a follow up of RFE 33797.The original RFE was closed as "Delivered", but I think the analysis was incorrect. The complain is that whenever a OS process calls gethostbyaddr() or equivalent, the OS itself will cache some information about th...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Informix Query Engine generates bad query/explain plan

There are situations where two or more columns from the same table are related to each other. For example, product_type and product_code from the products table are related, since only certain product_code values can be associated with a given pro...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration