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Informix

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Add ability to grant 'connect' to database to a role instead of just an individual user

I would like to see the ability to grant 'connect' on the database to a role as you can in Oracle and DB2. It seems counterproductive to ease administration by allowing object grants to a role and then forcing individual grants to connect to the d...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add '#'-sign as comment identifier in dbaccess

To make migration from ISQL sql scripts towards dbaccess scripts easier it would be benificial that dbaccess would support the '#' as comment lidentifier. This identifier is accepted in ISQL and 4GL and it would be great if dbaccess would also sup...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Informix mapped user authentication with Active Directory

Need a feature from Informix server so that Informix mapped users can also be authenticated by Active Directory. As of now, this feature is not there in Informix.
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Mark a row as "archived" so it will not show up in regular SELECT (or other SQL) operations

Oracle style Data invisibility (archiving) with In Database Archival. See this article ==> http://www.toadworld.com/platforms/oracle/w/wiki/11420.oracle-12c-data-invisibility-archiving-with-in-database-archival The idea is to mark a row as arch...
about 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Support for nested CASE, PARTITION BY clause in the GROUP BY clause

Support for nested CASE, PARTITION BY clause in the GROUP BY clause
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Remove limitation on TEXT and CLOB datatype to have the same functionality as LVARCHAR

Remove limitation on TEXT and CLOB datatype to have the same functionality as LVARCHAR.
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Print session info for long transaction in msg log or DUMPDIR

I searched to see if anyone had opened up a RFE for the below and did not find one, if there is one then please disregard. One of our customers has now hardened down security to such a degree that I can no longer connect to the server in which Inf...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

suppress fast repeating event from running alarmprogram for each event

Recently we had an event "storm" due to many events "Lock table overflow - user id 12396, session id 716985". Due to this the alarmprogram was executed little more than 97000 in a short time. I am aware of the mechanism that is in the alarmprogram...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Upgrade without outage in HDR environment

Upgrading without an outage in an HDR environment is a big deal when rolling out upgrades in the HDR environment. With the conversion from 12.10.FC4 to 12.10.FC5 we will have a failover and thats it! Thats a HUGE win for the product but I need thi...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Accelerating Subqueries in IWA

Currently, IWA does not fully accelerate subqueries of the following two forms: 1) Subqueries in FROM clause 2) Subqueries in WHERE clause:
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration