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Search results: Informix

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Increasing LO_hdr_partn size limit in every chunk in sbspace Metadata partition

We have a system with a lot of users and big amount of BLOB/CLOB data. It's critical 24x7 application. It should be created a new sbspace about 1TB - with 8 chunks x 140GB every 6 months, because the limit in LO_hdr_partn in sbspace Metadata Parti...
6 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Connection Manager should check if a secondary server is in sync before allowing connections to that server

When you have a primary and a secondary both server are in sync. But if you need to stop one of them for maintenaince reasons then it becomes out of sync. When you start it again the server might be so many log ahead and need to sync but the serve...
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

In 4GL, add support for more modern Data and Object Types

In 4GL, add support for multiple Industry standard data and Object types: String HashMap (and/or Dictionary) and HashList Data Frame (as in Python) External Record - portable, custom written records that can be shared globally or between function ...
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

In 4GL forms, add support for a scrollable text field

In 4GL Forms, ability to define a text field or text area, where the data associated is larger than the allotted area. When the user enters data in the field/area, the data will 'scroll' either left/right or up-down, to allow the user to continue ...
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

In 4GL, provide ability to read/write to text files in the local file system

Provide ability directly in 4GL to read and/or write data to plain text files, located on the programs local file system.
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

allow distributed queries when BLOBs involved

When trying to reference a table which contains a BLOB data type using syntax ddbb@dbservername:table, the following error is returned: error 9270: Type (informix.blob) is unsupported in distributed queries.
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Make range fragmentation work on high-write systems

Our application is INCREDIBLY write-heavy with highly transient data. Frankly, it doesn't even belong in Informix at all; it ought to be in something like MongoDB or even an in-memory DB. [I'm not kidding: 75-90K inserts per minute, involving BYTE...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Add new chunks while a backup is in progress

In huge environments with lots of data changes it is important to add more space (chunks) to a dbms at any time. Currently this is not possible while an L0 backup is running. Depending on the size of an dbms an L0 backup can take several hours. Th...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Add support for SQL_CONVERT functions as part of the CSDK

All major database vendors support it and it allows for applications to easily convert a value from one data type to another and process date/time values.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

LOAD data in batch mode with DATASTUDIO

When you must populate many tables I'd like to load data with datastudio using a batch command from command line
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted