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Search results: Informix

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Improvement in the check for high serial values

I'm trying to check if a serial value has reached its upper limit. I noticed the following unpleasant behaviour. In the sysmaster tables sysptnhdr and sysactptnhdr the currently used serial values are in three fields for the datatypes serial, seri...
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Allow DBA to re-initialize OS process cache created by the resolver routines

This is a follow up of RFE 33797.The original RFE was closed as "Delivered", but I think the analysis was incorrect. The complain is that whenever a OS process calls gethostbyaddr() or equivalent, the OS itself will cache some information about th...
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

SQL skeleton for SQLTrace

SQL skelecton for SQLTrace Most of the customers' product system have to run almost 1000 transactions per seconds, it means there are about 86M transactions per day. so there will be to many SQLs would be traced by current SQL trace.so customer ca...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

New National Language Support data type with variable size greater then 255 bytes.

The current NVARCHAR data type supports maximum of 255 bytes. In case of use UTF-8 it's not sufficient becuase it means to store about 127 UTF-8 characters.
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Enhance sysproclan information

Change sysproclan column created to datetime year to second. Add sql statement that caused the change Add location column (module/line) similar to onstat -g afr output This means stored procedure recompiles can be RCA'ed more easily when they are ...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

identify special columns with same meaning easily and modify data type

Use case: We want find columns with same meaning distributed over several tables easily either to modify the data type or find out the affected columns/tables only. For example there are price/money and other columns, each with an arbitrary column...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

IDS 12.10 syspurge enhancement

Description: We are experiencing locking errors during IBM Informix Dynamic Server syspurge causing a failure to complete syspurge specifically with tables using interval fragmentation. We understand that currently IBM cannot guarantee that there...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

PN_STAGEBLOB_THRESHOLD - Set to 1Mb when first table containing BYTE or TEXT is partitioned by Round Robin

Currently, the PN_STAGEBLOB_THRESHOLD onconfig parameter is not present in the standard onconfig file, therefore it defaults to zero. It's absence also means that most DBAs will not be aware of its existence and the potential pain they are in for...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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

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