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Informix Server

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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 ...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Develop functionality to see amount of logs used per session

Create a functionality to check at any given time the number of logs that are using a session
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

New National Language Support data type with variable size greater then 255 bytes.

The current NVARCHAR data type supports maximum of 255 bytes. In case of use UTF-8 it's not sufficient becuase it means to store about 127 UTF-8 characters.
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Feature request to verify backups in parallel

Hello, The onbar backup verification process runs in serial and takes a long time to complete for large databases (60+ hours to complete for an 800GB database). It would be helpful if the backup verification process could run in parallel, similar ...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Planned for future release

Allow "group commit" as other RDBMS

For high use OLTP systems, there can be a lot of I/O pressure on the logical log due to intense rate of logical log buffer flushing (most customer don't ant data loss so they use UNBUFFERED LOG). Setting BUFFERED LOG at session level would hardly ...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Future consideration

SQEXPLAIN FILE IN VERSION 10 DISPLAYS SQL WITH STATISTICS, IN V11.70, SOME SQL IS NOT DISPLAYED.

Defect idsdb00497410 was opened and APAR IC98517 assigned after proper repro. Development rejected this based on the assumption that code was not complete in V10.00 as it is now after V11.50 and later editions. Product is working as designed. Cust...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

the task "Table Shrink" allow to specify unit of work or duration

I used "table shrink" on large table, sometime it caused the long transaction on the other application processes due to the logical logs usage. In some cases, the size of table is large so the "table shrink" take too long and impact system on peak...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Feature Request: Allowing dirty read capability beyond ETX 1.31.xC2

IDS 11.70.FC7W2 OS AIX 6.1 ETX version expression) DataBlade version: Excalibur Text DataBlade Release 1.31.FC1X3 Problem: Due to the fix of IC73561 may have introduced the new behaviors on 1.31.xC2 that impact customer's current operation. Custom...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

CCB SDS New requirement for test scenario 37, about disable both arbitrator CM and primary at the same time.

CCB SDS test scenarios 37, disable the primary server and the arbitrator CM at sametime. It's a 2 points failure scenario, In current version, when the primary server and Arbitrator CM disabled at the same time point, the SDS server cannot takeove...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

CCB SDS New requirement for test scenario 14, about arbitrator CM behavior

New requirement for test scenario 14, it will trigger failover when the arbitrator CM cannot communicate with primary server,(but there are other CM can communicate with the primary server). CCB need us to change the expected result,only if all th...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration