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Informix Server

HDR shall handle blobs which are located in a blob space

In contrast to CLR (Continous Log Restore) is HDR not able to replicate blobs which are lying within a blob dbspace. HDR is only able to replicate blobs when they are within a table space. Work-Around: => see addional details #Customers: More o...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server Submitted

Enable/Disable Triggers at a Session or SQL level

I need update a significant number of rows on a very large table that has triggers. If I run disable triggers that is affect all sessions and means I need to take the table offline, which really means I need to take the system down SQL similar to ...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server Submitted

allow distributed queries when BLOBs involved

When trying to reference a table which contains a BLOB data type using syntax ddbb@dbservername:table, the following error is returned: error 9270: Type (informix.blob) is unsupported in distributed queries.
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server Submitted

Better documentation on syscdr database

One might find it hard to understand and troubleshoot ER without proper knowledge and/or documentation. We should have better and detailed documentation about the syscdr database and its tables and views.
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server Submitted

Onaudit add events at the statement level for object read/write

To efficiently audit table/index access - audit at the statement level.
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server Submitted

Better tool for performance analysis and tips

Until now, we can use the tool "explain" to have a query plan generated or use "onmode -Y" for the same purpose. Next, we can use onstat indicators or SMI queries to mearure performance. Anyway, this has downsides:- You have to know the query for ...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server Submitted

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
6 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 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...
8 months ago in Informix / Informix Server Submitted

Add in a "cdr learn server" or something similiar to connect two servers on an ER domain that may not have known about each other previously.

Servers and networking change around. There may be cases where two ER nodes who previously were unaware of each other or 'forgot' about each other need to be reconnected. Right now the only way to resolve this cleanly is to drop one of them from t...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server Submitted

onaudit for informix user - exclude system databases from the audit trail

Currently, our audit tool is configured to monitor DDL and DML actions specifically for the user "Informix." This setup ensures that our audit report contains only the information necessary for business purposes. However, it is also recording acti...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server Submitted