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Informix Server

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Shadow Column Creation "online"

Currently the shadow columns are very relevant with ER however it causes an outage and I dont see why we cant create them just as we create online indexes. Its the same concept and this would allow HDR database servers capable of migrating to ER w...
almost 9 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." ...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 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 ...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Solution for Awkward-Looking Queries in Views

When we create a view using a sensible-looking query, the database converts it into a version that has lots of extra parentheses and odd-looking table names. Below is an example of one of these converted queries. This is a relatively simple exampl...
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Make onstat -g rss log buffer(s) size configurable.

I have run onstat -g rss log and are seeing 10% cache misses on some systems. I would like the underlying buffer space to be configurable similar to etc. As per our Lab Advocate: From my interpretation of the source the information displayed on th...
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Automatic conversion of ifx_loc_t (TEXT/BYTE) to/from ifx_lo_t (CLOB/BLOB)

We have legacy ESQL/C code using ifx_loc_t to handle TEXT/BYTE columns. Customers want now to replace TEXT/BYTE by CLOB/BLOB columns in the database... and we would avoid to touch our ESQL/C code. Informix can support simple type conversion. For e...
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Defragment for a dbspace

Add at the 'DEFRAGMENT' SQL Api , the option to defragment an entire dbspace. We have set in our environment tables and partitions with historical data, so, they are tables or partitions who have any changes (include/excluded data). Most of...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

alter table online when modifying char length without killing the sessions

today my db is accessed through many web server. the main table is frequently modified : char increased and new fields. i had to bounce the engine to remove all the sessions easily.
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow abort defragment

Allow abort the defragment command.
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Informix : Re-introduce the -w parameter for dbschema

Re-introduce the -w parameter for dbschema so a remote dbschema can be done.
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

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