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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 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Column level encryption, an option to cleanup passwords on certain/all rows for DBSO or Informix

All users which are granted permissions for insert/modify data into tables are also allowed to use their own password for column level data encryption. But not all user are their whole lifetime in the company and move. What happened with their dat...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

IBM Data Server .Net Provider Support For Informix Types TEXT, BYTE and BOOLEAN

We are in the process of moving from .Net Framework to .Net Core. We currently use the Informix Client SDK ADO.Net drivers to access Informix databases using ADO.Net. When we tried to migrate to the IBM Data Server Driver (IBM.Data.DB2.dll) we fou...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Identify Query in IWA on the Database

I have an informix database and the IWA configured and would like to be able to map the query currently running on the IWA (ondwa tasks gives me the list) with a process on the database server. Currently all I see is the task information on the ac...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

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...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Add server/host down alert to Open Admin Tool

Provide a means to have Open Admin Tool check for an informix server or a host being down and send an email when one is found.
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Including Gateway as Default Installation

When installing Cognos Analytics, always require to choose "Optional Gateway" explicitly, and sometimes even selected, it doesn't really install properly. In some case, we may need to install Informix using Easy Install, which is the only way, b...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Optional expiration date for default role

In modern environments with a minimum need of data protection it is mandatory to set an expiration date to user accounts. Informix heavily depends on the user management of the underlying OS. In real life users have access to different databases ...
over 5 years ago in Informix 1 Not under consideration

Parallel index build and check is not supported on table with interval and range fragmentation.

CUSTOMER: CLEARTECH LTDA CONTACT.: Celso Cabral PRODUCT.: INFORMIX 11.70FC4X4 OS......: Red Hat Customer want to know how to if INFORMIX may use parallelism to create index using fragment by range and interval. eof--------------
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

HQ to show Informix server edition, version and fixpack version

Basic info useful in a heterogeneous deployment
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Delivered

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