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Informix Server

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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
7 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Submitted

we would like to raise a feature request for Informix to generate alerts or log messages in the online message log whenever index corruption is detected, as such events are currently not notified or recorded. on Informix secondary servers

In an Informix cluster environment, when the secondary server becomes the primary, any existing corruption on the secondary can be carried over without any notification. This can result in the corruption impacting all DML operations on the new pri...
8 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

CDC add configurable pameter max_recs in library ifx-changestream-client-1.1.3

IBM library ifx-changestream-client-1.1.3 has a hardcoded parameter max_recs = 1, causing unacceptable lag in CDC operation. This lag can delays to several hours. Other solutions CDC with max_recs set to 64 on the same database can transmit data n...
9 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Create an Archive checker to validate L1 backups

We need a tool that validates the Level1 backups in a similar manner of the L0 backups arch-checker
25 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Allow online index builds of functional indexes

The fact that we can't build functional indexes online effectively precludes them from use - or at least, makes it very difficult, as we can't do offline builds without an outage - which is expensive
28 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

A user with DBA privilege should be able to change the owner of a table without need to recreate it.

When a table needs to have a different owner, it is not possible to change it without recreating such object. It is to mention that Informix 8.21 allowed the change of the owner of the table with the RENAME TABLE statement. This is very usefull wh...
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

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
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

add an option in Informix HQ to surpress alerts during HQ start up

When we have HQ monitoring in place on HQ agent status and IDS status, if we have server OS restart/rebuild, HQ alerts will be triggered. We prefer there could be an option to tell HQ not to generate alert during scheduled outage/scheduled server ...
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 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...
2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Compatibility of SDS_ALTERNATE and logged SBSPACE

Our Standard Informix Cluster consists of Primary, SDS and RSS Server. While testing Failover with broken Network, we recognized that it is possible to get two Primarys when DRAUTO = 3 is set and the Network Connection of the Primary is interrupte...
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted