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

Add CLIENT_LABEL parameter for setnet32 (ODBC) connections

Hi, We have noticed there is no parameter value we can set for CLIENT_LABEL through setnet32 driver. To debug or diagnose particular user session easily, we would request to add this 'CLIENT_LABEL' parameter into setnet32. One other thing we would...
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 6 Delivered

OAT Top Level Dashboard Flexibility

Please add a feature to allow a user to modify which categories have icons on the top dashboard that displays multiple instances. There should be a way to add a description of each instance (in our case all stores for example have the same instanc...
about 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

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

BAR_RETRY should retry failed dbspace backup instead of complete archive

If you run a whole onbar backup (onbar -b -w -L 0) and have several dbspaces to backup and one dbspace backup failsthe complete archive must be retried. If you run parallel backup (BAR_MAX_BACKUP > 0) you also need to wait untilall dbspaces are...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future 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

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

better diagnostic for locale errors

We experience -21005 errors typically during loading data to the database. The error (undocumented) means that at least one character is not supported by database locale. Unfortunately it is not sufficient to correct input data fast: there is no f...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration