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Informix Server

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Ability to rotate encryption at rest keys on the Engine

Corporate security has requested us to change the EAR keys on demand as they see having the same key as a security risk. We would like to see a feature to change the .sth and .p12 files in an easier manner.
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Fixing IPA in a 15TB OLTP database or large database

We have a 15 TB size oltp db running in 12.10.FC12. We want to fix the data with pending IPA,however, we cannot use the traditional way due to : - we cannot put the DB offline for hours to fix the data with pending IPA and it will be between 5 to ...
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Allow the specification of the isolation mode at the statement level

The programmer should be able to specify the isolation mode (committed read, dirty read, serializable etc.) at the statement level.I don't have a definitive idea on how to specify this in terms of syntax. It could be in a "clean" way like: SELECT ...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Support DESC keyword for describing schema objects

Simple request: Support the DESC keyword commonly used by other databases as a synonym for the wordy 'INFO COLUMNS FOR'. This will help new users to Informix as well as being less to type for everybody else.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Increase 128 character limit for ADMIN_MODE_USERS onconfig parameter

ADMIN_MODE_USERS is a useful way of ensuring DBAs and critical monitoring scripts can connect in single user mode. Unfortunately this parameter is limited to 128 characters which is insufficient for the team we have and the three system accounts t...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

When AUTO_REPREPARE is non zero only have 1 sessions recompile a stored procedure

When AUTO_REPREPARE is non zero only have 1 sessions recompile a stored procedure. Currently with many sessions executing the same stored procedure, the stored procedure can be recompiled by many sessions causing a bottleneck. A new condition is n...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Clone a database

I routinely need to clone a Production database (not the whole instance) onto another instance on another machine. Formerly, I used onunload to do this, and worked like a charm. However, onunload does not work with blobs, and after we incorporated...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Functionality already exists

Add ability to control optimizer version.

Similar to DB2 z/OS Functional Levels and SQL Server Database Compatablity Level add ability to do the same for new optimizer versions. At least compared to the previous version. This allows more confidence for upgrades. This would allow upgrading...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow defining rolling container windows defined on user defined calendars

Currently time series rolling window containers can only be defined to use a predetermined set of calendars to define the number of time points included in each window. Those are: day, week, month, and year. There is a need for more flexibility. T...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Informix ER: Increase maximum allowed replicates

Our customer uses Enterprise Replication with Informix Server, spanning 530 databases, within 60 instances. We use 11.70 GE. We have hit the maximum limitation of 32746 replicates in the ER domain and it's not enough. We even had to decrease count...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration