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Informix Client Products

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CM should support majority-vote failover arbitration as an alternative to priority-based

Currently, the Informix Connection Manager handles failover arbitration on the basis of a priority setting in the ${CMCONFIG} file. This has the effect of making a single CM the judge, jury and executioner when it comes to failover events. And it ...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

JDBC driver shouldn't require SSLCONNECTION to be set when SQLHOSTS is used

Currently, the Informix JDBC driver requires SSLCONNECTION=true for connection strings that involve a TLS database listener. But when SQLH_TYPE and SQLH_FILE are set, the sqlhosts file already contains this information in the protocol field; it th...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

CM should report client IP and SLA when errors occur

Our connection managers routinely log failed client attempts to connect via the CM, but when this happens, it doesn't report the client's IP nor does it report the name of the SLA via which it's trying to connect. Both of these would be incredibly...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

CM should allow LOG to be set at the SLA-level

We have a Connection Manager configuration that includes multiple SLAs. There are times when it would be incredibly useful to enable logging for just one SLA while leaving it disabled for all of the others. Currently, the only option is to spawn a...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

Supply DBD-Informix Driver for PERL DBI on Linux

I was doing DB development in an Ubuntu/Linux enviornment using PERL. PERL has a database abstraction layer called DBI. Supports preparing queries to both MySQL and Informix with no changes. It does rely on a lower layer DB interface driver, for I...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

Backup/Restore GUI within HQ

One of the least enjoyable tasks is to using the archecker utility. Many times we need to restore just a row and/or rows in a table from an ontape backup. Restoring an entire database is easy from the command line. It would be very helpful if HQ c...
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

informixhq Relate Dashbords Query with timestamp filter

InformixHQ allows you to visualize moments of stress but not to identify the queries that caused them. If we have registered the query history we can relate it to the peak of stress. It is solved simply by allowing to relate (timestamp) in the pan...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

Informix HQ - API calls for Groups/Servers administration

Hello Team, I am aware that we can create/add/delete Servers/Groups via InformixHQ UI as admin. Are there API calls that I can use with curl for add/delete/modify Servers/Groups ? This will help in automating end-to-end configuration of Informix H...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

CSDK support for static links under the latest GCC releases

Currently the only way to produce a statically linked utility using ESQL/C is to compile and link with a GCC release earlier than 5.5. The latest is v10. Messages look like this: art@Elbereth : ~/GoogleDrive/Latest $ esql -static -o dbstruct dbstr...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 4 Future consideration

Connection pooling should not lock databases if all connections are closed

In case connection pooling is enabled in the driver (no matter if using ODBC, .NET Provider or the .NET Core provider), the driver keeps connections from the pool open to the database server in order for a faster reconnect in the applications. Any...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration