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Informix Server

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XPS provides a dot notation for COSERVERS, this is blocked under IDS which means a change from XPS to IDS requires a complete application layer rebuild

Migrating from a long time out-of-support XPS system to V14 requires all the <INFORMIXSERVER>.<COSERVER> notation to be change to <INFORMIXSERVER><COSERVER> as the dot notation is not supported under IDS. As XPS is long tim...
5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 5 Under review

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
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Need to revisit timestemp for incremental backup

our database backup size approaches 17 TB on a very busy system. When we attempt to take a Level 1 backup with ontape, the database engine throws an exception indicating that the backup is too old. As a result, we are forced to take a Level 0 back...
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

RSS_FLOW_CONTROL will be managed for each RSS separatly

Currently RSS_FLOW_CONTROL parameter will be used for all RSS at the same time but we want to use this for 1 RSS only .
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

SERVERNUM limitation need to increase

As you know, now servers are more powerful and can take more load, also there is not issue for storage and we can use SAN for this purpose so it is time to increase SERVERNUM limitation, currently we can only create 256 instances on one server . W...
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

FOT Indexes to support multi-index scans

FOT Indexes to support multi-index scans
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

FOT Indexes to support OR queries

FOT Indexes to support OR queries.
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Support for ON DELETE SET NULL and ON UPDATE CASCADE clauses in FOREIGN KEY statements

A customer wanted to use a construction like ALTER TABLE detail_table ADD CONSTRAINT FOREIGN KEY (link_column) REFERENCES master_table ON DELETE SET NULL; so that referencing values would be updated to NULL automatically if a parent row was delete...
9 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted
106 VOTE

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 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Support local authentication method to manage credentials on Informix using Hashicorp Vault

Customers who are using local authentication for Informix need a way to utilize the password management features for Hashicorp Vault https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/secrets/databases/db2
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted