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Backup Individual database, not entire instance

Need a mechanism, similar to ontape, to backup a live database (as opposed to entire instance), without locking it.
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

"Prevent the dbschema command from incrementing sequence values"

Currently, running dbschema increments the value of sequences, even when it is documented it is the expected behavior, we consider that it is not desireable.
12 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Please add support AREO* to Db2INSYNC.

Hello, Hello, We are in the process of migrating IDAA V5/CDC to IDAA V7/DB2INSYNC . We noticed that AREO* condition is not compatible with DB2INSYNC. Please add support AREO* to Db2INSYNC. We have several multimillion row tables, if there is an is...
7 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

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...
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Reread SSL Keystore while Informix is running

To renewing the SSL Keystore Files it is neccesary to restart the whole DB Engine / Connection Manager, when the keystore Files have been changed. A "reread keystore" Function would be very helpfull, and would save a lot of Time and reduce downtim...
6 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

add an option in Informix HQ to surpress alerts during HQ start up

When we have HQ monitoring in place on HQ agent status and IDS status, if we have server OS restart/rebuild, HQ alerts will be triggered. We prefer there could be an option to tell HQ not to generate alert during scheduled outage/scheduled server ...
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Monitoring table showing information about Integrated Synchronization open transactions

To be able to solve problems regarding Integrated Synchronization latency, we need to easily query information about Open Transactions and Tables involved in Integrated Synchronization. This information is very helpful when an application updated ...
3 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

More information in the Monitoring Table ACCEL_TABLE_INFO.

When a problem occurs with Replication of data from DB2 to IDAA, it is crucial to be able to investigate quickly and easy. 1. ACCEL_TABLE_INFO shows information about REPLICATION_STATUS (ENABLED or DISABLED), but it is missing the information abou...
3 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

We will like to see some automated way to change just the IP when we failover to our disaster recovery site instead of making it a manual process on the Admin Console

We have automated the changes we do on our disaster recovery site by submitting batch jobs to alter the ALIAS for InSync once the DB2's start. Since the private Network does not change and we recover via GDPS the accelerator connects with no issue...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 3 Planned for future release

Reset the serial value in the partition page if the table no longer has a serial column

If you want to check whether a serial value is close to its maximum value, it is very unpleasant that tables that no longer have a serial value or whose serial value has been changed to a Serial8 or BigSerial value still have the last value in the...
10 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted