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create a foreign key allowing one to one tables relationships

Our Primary Key and Foreign key constraints always have allowed creaing and ensuring '1 to many' table relationships. After researching, there is no direct way to implement such a case with Informix. The only safe way is to create a primary key on...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Display more Information while performing actions on spaces in informixHQ

All actions than can be performed on spaces in informixHQ (i. expand, etc.) show very meager information on the space. Please display at least the actual size that is going to expanded. More details on the space one is working on is helpful. OAT i...
over 6 years ago in Informix 1 Delivered

Allow dropping of distributions on specific columns; today it is only possible to drop all distributions on a table

We have a large system of many Tbs and as a legacy of Art Kagel's "dostats" we have distributions on all columns of all tables. These distributions are not needed and we have to spend considerable database resources keeping these up to date. We'd ...
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Need a function or pseudo-field to return the number of elements in a BSON array

Put in simplest terms, if I have a JSON/BSON record with an embedded array, I need to know how many elements are in the array. I need a function similar to bson_size() (which returns the string length of the total array) which instead returns the ...
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

Multi-tenant tuning,can stop and start the single tenant database

Isolate the resource(CPU,memory,chunk,lock) for the Multi-tenant database within the same instance, and can stop and start the single tenant database, can do the failover with Multi-tenant database, switch from one machine to another.
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Compatibility to MySQL SQL Syntax - Omit unnecessary FROM Clause

MySQL provides some SQL syntax features which Informix does not provide. One example the customer mentioned was the possibility to omit the FROM clause: SELECT 4+5 ; Using Informix a from clause is necessary: SELECT 4+5 from sysmaster:sysdual;
almost 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Mechanism needed to limit shared memory dumping per instance, similar to the per session limit available now

Shared memory dumping is disruptive in a production environment, particularly if the shared memory size is large. In our environment, many sessions can simultaneously encounter the same issue and so we are open to many shared memory dumps occurrin...
over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

BSON_UPDATE array enhancements

Currently BSON_UPDATE supports only set, unset, inc operators. It is insufficient for purposes of constructing json arrays incrementally, like adding wihthin SPL foreach array element one at a time.Most important is $push operator, other array ope...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

AKS Support - connect AKS cluster(.NET web api) to onprem Informix database

We have simple code connecting to on prem Informix datbase. This code is build as Linux container(using .NET Core Visual Studio) and deployed this container on Azure Kubernetes Service. Seeng this error when querying web api. "Unable to load DLL d...
about 5 years ago in Informix 1 Is a defect

Show mapped paths in ontape restore

Customer has two instances in same server one "real" for production and one for development. Development instance data is synchronized from real data by restoring production instance ontape Level 0. As both are in the same server, a chunk mapping ...
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

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