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Full HDR switch between primary and secondary with a single command and without any downtime

We have 2 servers with 2 HDR instances each. For each cluster we have also 2 connection manager each. On server one there is the primary of cluster 1 and the secondary of cluster 2 On server two there is the primary of cluster 2 and the secondary ...
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Implement nested loop join of external and indexed tables

We raised a support case for this, but creating here will help it progress. The description was as shown below. Please vote for it! Regards,Doug LawryOninit Consulting Try this in the "stores_demo" database: SET EXPLAIN ON;SELECT {+USE_NL(cust...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Backup / ReadAhead Performance

To speedup backup time, it would be nice if Informix can read with more than 64k from disk. Example 12G SAS SSD - read 100 GByte with dd iflag=direct:Blocksize Throughput Time64k 197 MB/Sec 519 Sec (8:39)256k 438 MB/Sec 233 Sec (3:53)2048k 1186 MB...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Improvements to UPDATE STATISTICS LOW

The run time of UPDATE STATISTICS LOW can be reduced by setting the parameter USTLOW_SAMPLE which also reduces I/O by using a sampling algorithm. However the table data may be deemed to be too heavily skewed and the engine falls back to a full sca...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Automatic Cluster Failback feature

We think Informix Cluster should have an automatically failback feature, that could physically priorize our servers (suggesting always that the primary node is in a site, for example).It would be just the same as using a Connection Manager, plus t...
over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Request to support Informix C-ISAM 7.25 on AIX7.2

1)Customer application have used Informix C-ISAM for a log time.2)The application renewal project already started.3)Customer required using Informix C-ISAM 7.25 on AIX7.2.4)AIX7.2 was standard OS in this customer about UNIX enviroment.
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 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

Only update rows in referenced tables only once per template repair (with p > 0), thus avoid deadlock & LongTX

Product in Use IBM Informix 11.70UC8X6Customer Information Duane GuthrieEmail: dguthrie@cisco.com Phone: 972-813-5115Sizing info TBDProduct Enhancement Request Abstract Request to only update rows in referenced tables (t1 and t2 here) only once ...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration