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Enhancement to DROP PROCEDURE / DROP FUNCTION syntax

Currently, the DROP PROCEDURE statement requires that the all of the procedure parameters necessary to completely identify the specific procedure. This is important due to Informix supporting polymorphic procedures, and is generally a good thing. ...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Not under consideration

Apply Date numeric data formatting in framework model in dashboards

See case TS000115108 Improved control of numeric data formatting in dashboards A framework model with informix database and date column formatted to the format dd/MM/yyyy not being honored in dashboards. It appears like 01-01-1900 According to the...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Certify informix 12.10 on RHEL8

NEWS FLASH - the website now shows that 12.10.FC15 is certified on RHEL 8. This should be marked as completed. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/informix-server-system-requirements We need to stay with Informix 12 so that our compiled 4GL will con...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

Informix ER: Increase maximum allowed replicates

Our customer uses Enterprise Replication with Informix Server, spanning 530 databases, within 60 instances. We use 11.70 GE. We have hit the maximum limitation of 32746 replicates in the ER domain and it's not enough. We even had to decrease count...
almost 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

ADMIN_USER_MODE_WITH_DBSA and ADMIN_MODE_USERS shall be changeable values via onmode -wf/-wm.

The mentioned values shall be online changeable to avoid downtimes of informix. Especially within production landscape it is very important to avoid any unnecessary downtimes.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Provide a Prometheus exporter for Informix

Many organizations use unified approach to collecting, storing and visualizing metrics from various sources using at least one of the few established platforms of which Prometheus+Grafana are probably the most prominent. It would be very beneficia...
almost 4 years ago in Informix 1 Not under consideration

use raw table to bulk load/huge files in Informix cluster

raw table load and copy of raw table data availability read only secondary, RSS sec. in a HDR cluster. A big one for us. How do we load billion + row table in a HDR cluster without consuming too many logical logs? Is there a way to load a raw tabl...
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

syslog support for informix audit logging. or an easier mechanism to forward logs in the shortterm

We will prefer a syslog compliant logging or in the short-term an easier interface for forwarding logs (audit logs) to a centralized system. There is a new PCI/PA-DSS requirement for the financial/banking industry. To send all security logging to ...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Delivered

Informix Connection Manager should print full timestamp (%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S) in logfile

Informix oncmsm logfile does not print complete timestamp - only %H:%M:%SSo it is difficult to parse the logfile and get a complete timestamp with date+time.
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Support IDataReader::GetBytes / IfxDataReader::GetBytes for BSON fields

We're using the BSON capabilities of the Informix server in order to store data in a separate BSON colum - like additional information for the data row or optional fields that may vary from row to row (e.g. translations to different languages). Wi...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 3 Not under consideration

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