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execute unload on store procedures

it would be wonderful, to be able to execute unload directly on store procedures, and not have to do an system call, so it we a native unload of data
3 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

we would like to raise a feature request for Informix to generate alerts or log messages in the online message log whenever index corruption is detected, as such events are currently not notified or recorded. on Informix secondary servers

In an Informix cluster environment, when the secondary server becomes the primary, any existing corruption on the secondary can be carried over without any notification. This can result in the corruption impacting all DML operations on the new pri...
5 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Request official support for monitoring Informix with Datadog products

Request the ability to monitor Informix using Datadog products as customer relies on Datadog as their central monitoring platform and would prefer to consolidate all activities there
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

CDC add configurable pameter max_recs in library ifx-changestream-client-1.1.3

IBM library ifx-changestream-client-1.1.3 has a hardcoded parameter max_recs = 1, causing unacceptable lag in CDC operation. This lag can delays to several hours. Other solutions CDC with max_recs set to 64 on the same database can transmit data n...
6 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

A user with DBA privilege should be able to change the owner of a table without need to recreate it.

When a table needs to have a different owner, it is not possible to change it without recreating such object. It is to mention that Informix 8.21 allowed the change of the owner of the table with the RENAME TABLE statement. This is very usefull wh...
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Informix - Adjusting Edition Limits

With the introduction of IDS 15, storage options within an instance have become virtually unlimited. Fortunately, this has also removed several restrictions that, over the years, led to unnecessary administrative effort across different editions. ...
7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Allow online index builds of functional indexes

The fact that we can't build functional indexes online effectively precludes them from use - or at least, makes it very difficult, as we can't do offline builds without an outage - which is expensive
25 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Multi-Vector Functionality

Multi-Vector Database functionality (like Milvus). May be an additional functionality like time-series or as datablade like geospatial and text-search.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Under review

Introduce Named Variables on Informix .NET Core

Named variables is a feature that is widely used by developers (specially those who use .NET Technologies) where they nominate a parameter, set him some value and them execute a SQL Statement passing the named variable as a filter.
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Make Informix .NET Core work with DRDA Protocol

The main idea of this request is: today Informix .NET Core needs ODBC from OS. Using DRDA protocol, Informix .NET Core doesn't has any ODBC dependency, which makes easy the development for applications specially when these applications were built ...
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration