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Search results: Informix

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Prevent ER sync job of deleting records from child table on target

After talk with lab and support group the follwoing became clear: Under certain circumstances ER sync job can delete data from tables even if these tables are not part of the ER system. When a replicated table (target) has an unique index on a non...
about 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Create and use a BTS index over a temporary table.

drop table if exists tp01 ;create temp table tp01 ( nome varchar(100) ) with no log ;insert into tp01 select first 1000 tabname from systables ; create index i1_tp01 on tp01( nome bts_varchar_ops) using bts ; select * from tp01 where bts_contains ...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Implement UUID keyword/function

Implement UUID keyword and function and allow to use it in: 1. SELECT operations 2. As default value when creating a new table 3. Inside an SPL procedure/function Security is a must. Using serials or any other autoincrease numbers as ident...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Delivered

External Tables - export whole database

There should be a functionality to create external tables automatically for all tables in a database, similar to dbexport or onpladm. Unfortunately, not all data types support external tables fully (timeseries, for example). Datablade data types s...
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Delivered

OnBar selective space backup restore allow non-backup spaces online but empty

Most of our customer base rely on selective space OnBar backups. As 99% of our customer base have been used a concept called Copy live database to a test database under the same instance (obviously, with different database and DBspace name) for ev...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Lock monitor, show table name and How long has waited?

onstat -k can show table name;Can save below information when lock wait occurred.1) session id and SQL statement which hold the lock.2) How long it hold the locks. 3) Table lock information.
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Methods to get Database and Table names in J/Foundation SQLDATA Interface

In J Foundation, for opaque type implementation, we need methods in SQLData interface implementation to get current database and table where opaque type column resides.
almost 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

HPL jobs freeze when changing index setting

Problem description and business impact When HPL is used to load a table with indexes, it does a set indexes filtering before the loading of the table and does a set indexes enable after the loading. If I have 1000 tables to load, what I would rat...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Informix systabauth table reached maximum space and is at 98%

SYSAUTHD table is at 98% and we want to free up space
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

ER CDR Sync for local reorg

A means to use cdr sync internal to an instance. I am looking to use golden gate to do an informix reorg because it can validate that the data is insync between two tables but if "cdr sync" could work from an instance to the same instance then I c...
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered