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Informix Server

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Allow remote query execution inside a TRUSTED CONTEXT

A customer that has some customized "auditing" built on triggers would like to be able to differentiate the real user behind the application server. In theory they could use SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION to achieve this, either directly or better yet,...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow SPL UDR drop/recreate without taking an outage

Currently to change the body of an existing SPL procedure/function, even without changing the signature, requires an outage for applications executing those UDRs.The error returned is "9753: Unable to find User Defined Routine with the given id." ...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Informix auditing (onaudit) should be able to record feprogram with the "start session" event

In 11.70 (or earlier) IBM enhanced the client tools and server so that a string for the "front end program" is sent to the server. This can be seen in the syssessions table if a compatible Client SDK or IConnect is used. It would be very useful fo...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Log DRDA listener messages to online.log similar to current logging of the SQLI listener.

The DRDA listener (drsoctcp) is not logging any error messages to the online.log. The SQLI listener (onsoctcp) does log messages when, for example a wrong username is being used to connect to the instance: 15:45:00 listener-thread: err = -951: ose...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

14.10 macOS port

Informix 14.10 should available for macOS
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Need config param to allow user to specify what dbspaces should be used for Mongo collections

Currently (IDS 12.10.FC2X6) when a collection is created in the Informix server the dbspaces used are selected by some automated process. The user has no control where the data or indexes are placed. There should be a config parameter which could ...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Prepend machine's name to Assert files written to DUMPDIR

Scenario: The customer site uses a single network mount for DUMPDIR across hundreds of servers. Impact: difficulty in identifying AF files generated by specific servers. Current workaround: search online.log for all "stack trace for pid" strings...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

log_rotate sysadmin job for CONSOLE, PSM_ACT_LOG, PSM_DEBUG_LOG

There is a sysadmin job for rotation of logfiles for MSG_PATH, BAR_ACT_LOG and BAR_DEBUG_LOG.But for CONSOLE, PSM_ACT_LOG and PSM_DEBUG_LOG these sysadmin tasks are not configured/prepared in $INFORMIXDIR/etc/sysadmin/sch_tasks.sql
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

oncheck should check the Timeseries data associated with a table

From the docs 'Use the oncheck utility to check specified disk structures for inconsistencies, repair inconsistent index structures, and display information about disk structures.' However, if a table has TimeSeries data associated with it the TS ...
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

identify special columns with same meaning easily and modify data type

Use case: We want find columns with same meaning distributed over several tables easily either to modify the data type or find out the affected columns/tables only. For example there are price/money and other columns, each with an arbitrary column...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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