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Search results: Informix

HDR shall handle blobs which are located in a blob space

In contrast to CLR (Continous Log Restore) is HDR not able to replicate blobs which are lying within a blob dbspace. HDR is only able to replicate blobs when they are within a table space. Work-Around: => see addional details #Customers: More o...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server Submitted

Add TCP_NODELAY as a CSDK Parameter

We are a comprehensive ERP platform serving thousands of business users across industries in Australia and internationally. The application runtime is built on C/ESQL and connects to IBM Informix as its database engine via the CSDK ESQL/C API. As ...
6 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products Submitted

execute unload on store procedures

it would be wonderful, to be able to execute unload directly on store procedures, and not have to do an system call, so it we a native unload of data
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Server Submitted

Client SDK Release For Linux Repositories

For most other major databases you can install a database driver from the standard package management repository. "apt-get install mysql-client" "yum install postgres-dev", etc. It easily allows systems to be set up to communicate and work with th...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products Submitted

Enable/Disable Triggers at a Session or SQL level

I need update a significant number of rows on a very large table that has triggers. If I run disable triggers that is affect all sessions and means I need to take the table offline, which really means I need to take the system down SQL similar to ...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server Submitted

onmode -I <error No> should have an optional flag to automagically turn off the trapping

Real world, intermittently I see a 208 error from the app layer, typically in batches of 100 or so and normally at inconvenient times. This would allow me to set the onmode -I and walk away until the error trips and not having the server swamped w...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server Submitted

Allow rolling upgrade of an online cluster to a different major version.

This would allow upgrading to a different major version as a rolling upgrade. This reduces risk by only upgrading some secondaries allowing failover to revert to the previous version with minimal impact. New catalog fields would be auto-populated ...
9 months ago in Informix / Informix Server Submitted

Allow rolling upgrade of an online cluster to non-consecutive fix packs with catalog changes.

This would allow skipping fixpacks even with catalog changes.This reduces risk by only upgrading some secondaries allowing failover to revert to the previous version with minimal impact.
9 months ago in Informix / Informix Server Submitted

Allow rolling upgrade of an online cluster to non-consecutive fix packs when no catalog changes.

Allow skipping fixpacks and still doing a rolling upgrade when there are catalog changes. This reduces risk by only upgrading some secondaries allowing failover to revert to the previous version with minimal impact. New catalog fields would be aut...
9 months ago in Informix / Informix Server Submitted

Better dbaccess output formats

CSV output, or at at least tabular output with headings would be appreciated A "quiet" or "errors only" mode would also be good, as too many times errors get lost because stderr was sent to /dev/null, because most of the things dbaccess writes t...
9 months ago in Informix / Informix Server Submitted

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