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Informix Server

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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.
12 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Support for ON DELETE SET NULL and ON UPDATE CASCADE clauses in FOREIGN KEY statements

A customer wanted to use a construction like ALTER TABLE detail_table ADD CONSTRAINT FOREIGN KEY (link_column) REFERENCES master_table ON DELETE SET NULL; so that referencing values would be updated to NULL automatically if a parent row was delete...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

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. ...
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Informix v15 PDF Manuals

PDF Manuals are needed for offline use.
6 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Limited the number of row processed with an update/delete statement

THis is similar to MS Server (and other DBs) DELETE ... TOP <N> and TOP <n> PERCENT This would help avoid LTX issues without custom SQL coding, it would minimize the time the table is locked UPDATE FIRST 10000 COUNT 0 ... N <table&g...
6 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Increasing LO_hdr_partn size limit in every chunk in sbspace Metadata partition

We have a system with a lot of users and big amount of BLOB/CLOB data. It's critical 24x7 application. It should be created a new sbspace about 1TB - with 8 chunks x 140GB every 6 months, because the limit in LO_hdr_partn in sbspace Metadata Parti...
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

"Prevent the dbschema command from incrementing sequence values"

Currently, running dbschema increments the value of sequences, even when it is documented it is the expected behavior, we consider that it is not desireable.
5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Informix V15 PDF Manuals

PDF Manuals are needed for offline use.
6 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Submitted

Reset the serial value in the partition page if the table no longer has a serial column

If you want to check whether a serial value is close to its maximum value, it is very unpleasant that tables that no longer have a serial value or whose serial value has been changed to a Serial8 or BigSerial value still have the last value in the...
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Please remove the error -21569 when accessing via the SQL Admin API

If you use a dbaccess or other client of a version older than 15.0.0.0 with the SQL Admin API to retrieve information from large tables, you get the error message -21569 'this client cannot create or open tables that use large rowids'. For example...
6 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted