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Informix

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onbar should be able to restore logs from primary AND HDR RO SECONDARY

... to prevent full backup after HDR primary/secondary switch ! At the moment (Version 12.10.xC14) cold restore after HDR primary/secondary switch is only working if:- both nodes have the same DBSERVERNAME/INFORMIXSERVER set because the namespace ...
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow SPL UDR drop/recreate without taking an outage

Currently to change the body of an existing SPL procedure/function, even without changing the signature, requires an outage for applications executing those UDRs.The error returned is "9753: Unable to find User Defined Routine with the given id." ...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Informix auditing (onaudit) should be able to record feprogram with the "start session" event

In 11.70 (or earlier) IBM enhanced the client tools and server so that a string for the "front end program" is sent to the server. This can be seen in the syssessions table if a compatible Client SDK or IConnect is used. It would be very useful fo...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Prepend machine's name to Assert files written to DUMPDIR

Scenario: The customer site uses a single network mount for DUMPDIR across hundreds of servers. Impact: difficulty in identifying AF files generated by specific servers. Current workaround: search online.log for all "stack trace for pid" strin...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Add ability for 4GL to handle lvarchar columns

Add ability to handle lvarchar columns in 4gl. Currently a program will compile but dumps core when it executes.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Functionality already exists

IDS 12.10 syspurge enhancement

Description: We are experiencing locking errors during IBM Informix Dynamic Server syspurge causing a failure to complete syspurge specifically with tables using interval fragmentation. We understand that currently IBM cannot guarantee that there...
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

log_rotate sysadmin job for CONSOLE, PSM_ACT_LOG, PSM_DEBUG_LOG

There is a sysadmin job for rotation of logfiles for MSG_PATH, BAR_ACT_LOG and BAR_DEBUG_LOG.But for CONSOLE, PSM_ACT_LOG and PSM_DEBUG_LOG these sysadmin tasks are not configured/prepared in $INFORMIXDIR/etc/sysadmin/sch_tasks.sql
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Implement role management into informixHQ

Nowadays role management is neccecary to manage lots of users in dbms. InformixHQ should support this.
almost 5 years ago in Informix 0 Not under consideration

Support plugins in informixHQ

Plugins have been an important feature of OAT, that allowed to implement your own individual neccecary administration tasks. Without this feature one would have to write another toolset. This is not desireable. It should be possible to do (nearly)...
almost 5 years ago in Informix 1 Not under consideration

Allow stored procedure conflict resolution on receive-only targets for Enterprise Replication

Currently stored procedure conflict resolution is not allowed on a receive-only participant, but when there are multiple sources and one target, even though the target is receive-only, there can be situations where more advanced logic is needed to...
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration