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Search results: Informix

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Introduce Named Variables on Informix .NET Core

Named variables is a feature that is widely used by developers (specially those who use .NET Technologies) where they nominate a parameter, set him some value and them execute a SQL Statement passing the named variable as a filter.
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Allow more than 50 MB for UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH sort operations

UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH operations that do not use indices for sort are restricted to 50 MB before the system will use temporary space. This limit has remained unchanged for a long time and could be increased quite a lot on a modern system. ...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Make onconfig parameter SSL_KEYSTORE_LABEL dynamically updatable.

Make onconfig parameter SSL_KEYSTORE_LABEL dynamically updatable. The equivalant has already been made dynamically updatable in DB2 - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=1152-manageability-enhancements
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Identify/log slow queries on a busy system

SQLTrace offers the DBA the tooling required to monitor a user session. However its difficult to monitor heavily used systems. For example one needs to have a buffer large enough to store 90 seconds of SQL queries (small lookup SQL's consume the b...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

MSG_DATE format should follow $DBDATE if defined

Several customers would like the format of the date written to online.log when we have the MSG_DATE parameter defined/activated to follow the format of DBDATE.Currently it seems to follow the American standard (MONTH / DAY / YEAR2).
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Speed control for 'cdr sync'

'cdr sync' is a very fast and efficient way of creating a copy of a table when used with loopback replication. The problem is that it can be too quick and can create logical logs at a rate that can overwhelm replication and log backups. The idea i...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Add onconfig parameter to not allow slow alters.

Add an onconfig parameter so that slow alters are not allowed by default. This is to prevent outages for customers from long transaction rollbacks.
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

SQL Trace filtering

SQLTrace enable the DBA to get the query plan of all the queries executed by a user (when mode=user) or by all users (when mode=global). Given that nowadays web applications and/or APIs use connection pooling, they submit a large number of queries...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Refresh for SSL Listeners (reload certificates)

Today, until current version (12.10 xC4) isn't possible to update/replace/implement a SSL certificate without restart the engine. This RFE include two related feature : 1) Allow stop/start SOCSSL listeners using command "onmode -P" and with this r...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Avoid UPDATE STATISTICS [LOW] sampling failures due to data skew

If onconfig parameter USTLOW_SAMPLE is set, sampling will be used for all UPDATE STATISTICS LOW commands. On some tables this will always or nearly always fail due to data skew, printing a message like: Warning: update statistics low using samplin...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

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