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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...
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Planned for future release

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...
6 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Planned for future release

LVARCHAR support via 4GL application

Due to the implementation of a number of new functionalities and the constantly growing database, we have to switch tables from CHAR to LVARCHAR in several Bank systems, this functionality will save space but also make queries in the database more...
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Planned for future release

Add Native 4GL support for build/parse of JSON and XML formatted data

Add ability directly in 4GL to build and parse files/objects in: JSON format XML format
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Planned for future release

Have a Event alarm ID for allocating an new virtual shared memory segment

Add a EVENT_CLASS value for event of Server's dynamically allocating an new virtual shared memory segment
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Planned for future release

Restore of chunks of one dbspace in parallel

In a case of an onbar restore and depending on the onconfig configuration of BAR_MAX_RESTORE setting a parallel restore of dbspaces is possible. In the case that one of the dbspaces have lots of chunks, all of these chunks will be restored sequent...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Planned for future release

Increase the default rowsize for Informix

The default rowsize of 32767 is not large enough resulting in split pages and wasted performance.
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products / Informix Server 0 Planned for future release

unable to update an existing column with varchar definition.

a column defined as varchar returns an error "no more extents" when tried to update. Work around is tedious as we need to unload millions of records, then reload it again.
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Planned for future release

Allow STOP_APPLY functionality when RSS is disconnected from the Primary

Currently Informix supports a Primary and multiple RSS servers. We have one of the RSS servers with the DELAY_APPLY config set to 12H and the 12 hours of logs get stored on the RSS server in the LOG_STAGING_DIR. Informix currently supports rolling...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Planned for future release
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Informix should be able to change owner on tables and any other objects

If user=informix creates all database and all tables, then programmer creates table but user=informix cannot change it. Only drop it.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Planned for future release