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Have an new TEMP_TABLE_SIZE = [LARGE|SMALL] onconfig and session parameter

It appears that LARGE temp tables are not best practice, as these are slower than SMALL temp tables. It would be nice to avoid application code changes because of this Informix behavior, and force programmers to use CREATE SMALL TEMP TABLE ... All...
about 9 hours ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Enhancing Performance and Latency metrics with append when you relog to MC

Useful to cross verify the latency and performance , also to keep an historical data for the benchmark , also sending the data to datadog, splunk, appdynamics or grafana these tools are being used by many clients and it will be useful to send our ...
8 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Make UTF-8 validation optional for user functions

Please add an option to the CDC config to switch UTF-8 validation on and off. This can be narrowed down to %USER functions - currently CDC always does UTF-8 validation for such definitions, even if a column is marked 'binary'. In our environment, ...
3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

CDC could check in advance whether the log record provided by IFI 306 can be discarded, as in cases of records originating from utilities such as REBUILD INDEX.

Today we have some REBUILD INDEXES that run on very large NPI indexes, as consequence of LOAD INDEXDEFER NPI. These REBUILD INDEXES last some hours to finish. We noticed IBM CDC for Db2 z/OS follows units of recovery (URs) generated by these REBUI...
2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Provide kafka password encryption in kafkaproducer.properties

Plan text password no longer acceptable in enterprise environment. It is flag to have vulnerability and not compliance with audit requirement.
10 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Request official support for monitoring Informix with Datadog products

Request the ability to monitor Informix using Datadog products as customer relies on Datadog as their central monitoring platform and would prefer to consolidate all activities there
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

We need the Oracle Instant Client to be supported by CDC Replication Engine.

We are requesting IBM official support for the Oracle Instant Client with CDC Replication. These items have been identified by IBM as potential exposures with the Oracle Instant Client: - No official support for CDC with Oracle Instant Client. Ora...
3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Informix - Adjusting Edition Limits

With the introduction of IDS 15, storage options within an instance have become virtually unlimited. Fortunately, this has also removed several restrictions that, over the years, led to unnecessary administrative effort across different editions. ...
10 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 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 ...
22 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 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.
22 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted