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    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...
    4 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    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...
    23 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    improve bconf .

    we have a large lsf cluster which contains many usergroup with fairshares. so every time we want to use bconf to update usershares, it would take 3 mins to complete and during process, the mbatchd is not responding. all detail you can refer to bel...
    25 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Under review

    Allow rolling upgrade of an online cluster to a different major version.

    This would allow upgrading to a different major version as a rolling upgrade. This reduces risk by only upgrading some secondaries allowing failover to revert to the previous version with minimal impact. New catalog fields would be auto-populated ...
    about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Allow rolling upgrade of an online cluster to non-consecutive fix packs with catalog changes.

    This would allow skipping fixpacks even with catalog changes.This reduces risk by only upgrading some secondaries allowing failover to revert to the previous version with minimal impact.
    about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Allow rolling upgrade of an online cluster to non-consecutive fix packs when no catalog changes.

    Allow skipping fixpacks and still doing a rolling upgrade when there are catalog changes. This reduces risk by only upgrading some secondaries allowing failover to revert to the previous version with minimal impact. New catalog fields would be aut...
    about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Better dbaccess output formats

    CSV output, or at at least tabular output with headings would be appreciated A "quiet" or "errors only" mode would also be good, as too many times errors get lost because stderr was sent to /dev/null, because most of the things dbaccess writes t...
    about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Update Statistics from secondary

    Given the statistics update process is almost entirely read-only, excecpt for the ind of each table/index, it would be useful to be able to run it from a secondary ( HDR/RSS Node ) too keep load off te primary
    about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Request for configuration parameter “HNAME_MAX_NUM” to limit the number of hname conditions in RES_REQ.

    In production environment, automated scripts (for example, Synopsys CDPL) generate very long RES_REQ strings with thousands of (hname!='hostX') conditions in the select clause, which has led to mbatchd/mbschd performance degradation and scheduling...
    2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Planned for future release

    bconf supports to update resource tag for hosts in lsf.cluster file

    regarding TS020747969, we wanted update resource tag for hosts in lsf.cluster file.
    3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Needs more information

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