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Informix

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session setting to make an index invisible just for the current session

It would be useful to have a session setting that makes an index INVISIBLE for the current session only as well as a session setting to reverse that and make an index VISIBLE for the session. The latter might only work to reverse session level inv...
5 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 4 Functionality already exists

Client SDK Release For Linux Repositories

For most other major databases you can install a database driver from the standard package management repository. "apt-get install mysql-client" "yum install postgres-dev", etc. It easily allows systems to be set up to communicate and work with th...
12 days ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

Provide "time to complete" estimations for specific operations

It would be nice to provide a decent estimate on the time it will take to perform atypical operations such as:Alter tableCreate IndexArchivesCould estimate time needed or provide percent progress information while operation is ongoing
18 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 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...
18 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Expose available kernel AIO resources

Informix has an internal queue for KAIO requests that cannot be submitted because the number of KAIO resources available to a CPU VP is insufficient. There is nothing exposing this queue and giving insight into when KAIO resources may be insuffici...
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 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...
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Request is to provide an Informix version with ASLR turned on.

Address space layout randomization (ASLR) is a memory-protection process for operating systems (OSes) that guards against buffer-overflow attacks by randomizing the location where system executables are loaded into memory. Request is to provide an...
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

V15 sqlca structure to report BIGSERIAL & SERIAL8 value assigned by INSERT

In versions of the engine prior to v15.0 & CSDK library versions prior to v15.0, the SQLCA structure fields were int4 and could not hold the values returned from inserting to a BIGSERIAL or SERIAL8 column requiring a separate call to the DBINF...
3 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.
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 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...
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

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