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Informix Server

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New configuration parameter to enable sbspace logging by default

Instances that are replicated must have smart large objects logged so that they are copied to secondary servers. This is not the default, and one of the following is required when setting up the sbspace: onspaces -s -S ... -Df LOGGING=ONonspaces -...
19 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Under review

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 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

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. ...
12 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 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
6 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Future consideration

Informix HQ schema compare between two databases

I have two databases and they should have the same name/number of tables, indexes, constraints, primary keys, and etc. Informix HQ can export the schema. I am requesting Informix HQ to compare schema between two databases. It should show differenc...
15 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Request Informix slow queries history

When a user executes a query and the execution time is over x seconds, the SQL text is saved to a database table, along with general statistics like number of times it executes, avg duration, rows retrieve, row sent, etc. This is configured at a d...
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Under review

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...
6 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Planned for future release

Multi-Vector Functionality

Multi-Vector Database functionality (like Milvus). May be an additional functionality like time-series or as datablade like geospatial and text-search.
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Under review

Informix latest version of 14.10 and 15.0 on OS: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS (Noble Numbat)'

Hi Informix Team, We can see at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1079427 , that Informix Server 14.10 and 15.x is not released for Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS (Noble Numbat). The current supported Ubuntu 22.04 LTS will EOS in June 2027 . Thank you ve...
29 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Informix v15 PDF Manuals

PDF Manuals are needed for offline use.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review