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Search results: Informix

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Lift 32K limit on SQL queries/results

SQL statements that exceed 32K in their collective data types currently crash. For example, if you select 10 LVARCHAR columns of 5000 each, totaling 50000 you get an error, crashing the application. This limit is way too low and it is causing our ...
about 6 years ago in Informix 1 Functionality already exists

Shorten the time spent by "onstat -z" when zeroing internal structures

As was diagnosed in ticket TS002495910, in customer's system "onstat -z" processing is causing about 1 second "block" every 5 minutes for all threads, that needed to acquire the global mutex. This causes problems in customer's system (one of the l...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

log capture from Read only secondary / updatable secondary

Currently I can on;y read log data from primary for CDC. I woule like to request I read the transaction logs from read only secondary server (and not primary) as Informix source for CDC and apply to target.
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Support for ON UPDATE CASCADE

Use case: There is a table called release with a primary key id of type integer and an additional column name (the release name). And further tables (e.g. table_x, table_y, …) with a reference (foreign key) to release.id. The working tables are ta...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Future consideration

byte and text partitioning

Ability to partition byte and text data stored in blobspace. Eg. create table table1 (,,, colx byte in (blobspc1, blobspc2) ) ... This allows the byte/text data to be partitioned across multiple blobspace so that the blobspace size will not be ske...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 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

dbimport support for tenant databases

The database which is exported by dbexport is not possible to import as tenant database by dbimport. In the current implementation, the tenant database should be created by SQL Admin API first. dbimport is by default creating the new database as t...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Not under consideration

remove or enlarge the data page limitation per fragment

when the total pages per fragment reach 16775134, the new data can't insert.the customer have to :1,stop the application 2,fragment the table3,reload the data 4,create the index 5, start the application
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Delivered

TS Rolling Window Containers dropping dormant window should be similar to DETACH FRAGMENT

When a dormant fragment is removed the data is gone for good, unless you manually unload to a new table or flat file. On large TS this is very time and disk restrictive. It is also hard to coordinate on embedded systems
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 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