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Informix

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Support for multiple SBSPACEs for LOBS (IBM Data Server Driver)

Our product uses smart CLOB and BLOB fields. Due to their size, they are split among multiple SBSPACEs. The classic Informix Provider for ADO.NET supports multiple SBSPACEs with methods such as "conn.GetIfxClob(tableName, columnName);". The Data S...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Function to move sysadmin database

Product : IDS 12.10We like to have a build APIto move sysadmin database from 1 dbspace to another.Currently we are using execute function task ("reset sysadmin",);And this will reset the entire database. We found out lately, multitenant database i...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

IWA: Need support for SQL function INSTR(), i.e., in-string

Informix Warehouse Accelerator (IWA) does not support the SQL function INSTR(), which allows us to search a substring within a string, and gets the location or character position of that substring inside the string. Informix does support substring...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

catalog database on a dbspace

Could it be possible to add a database and its dbspace from an other instance. Same as the db2 command CATALOG DATABASE database-name [AS alias] [ON path ...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Show percentage complete on ontape restore

Would like to see the percentage complete when running a restore with ontape. Currently this is only shown when doing an archive.
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add IF NOT EXISTS logic to ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT

alter table mytab add constraint if not exists foreign key .... alter table mytab add constraint if not exists primary key .... alter table mytab add constraint if exists drop constraint ....
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

ADD CHUNK' OPERATION SHOULD RETURN WARNING THAT LEVEL 0 ARCHIVE NEEDS TO BE DONE

An 'add dbspace' operation returns the following warning upon completion: ** WARNING ** A level 0 archive of Root DBSpace will need to be done. An 'add chunk' operation just returns 'chunk successfully added'. An 'add chunk' operation should also ...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

ONCONFIG Parameter to Automatically tune OPTIMIZER for generic Workload (OLTP:DSS):

ONCONFIG Parameter to Automatically tune OPTIMIZER for generic Workload (OLTP:DSS): Currently the onconfig.std file is a mix of defaults for OLTP and DSS, often landing on DSS, for example OPT_COMP_IND , OPT_SEEK_FACTOR , OPT_GOAL, etc. With the d...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Connection Manager Support for all Possible connection types (DRDA/SQLI/Mongo API/REST)

Connection manager needs to connect and function with all of the informix data not just the DRDA and SQL data portions.
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Shadow Column Creation "online"

Currently the shadow columns are very relevant with ER however it causes an outage and I dont see why we cant create them just as we create online indexes. Its the same concept and this would allow HDR database servers capable of migrating to ER w...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration