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Informix Server

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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

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

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 Informix to kill sessions not only limited by session-id

Informix should be able to kill sessions not only limited by session-id:For example: If a admin should kill sessions from a specific user or host a script is needed. So it would be helpfull if onmode -z would accept following syntax for example:$ ...
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

oncheck should be able to repair bad rowids in an index

oncheck should be able to repair bad rowids in an index. i.e. remove bad rowids and add missing rowids. i.e. online index repair.
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Informix should be supported as a Kubernetes based Database inside of the Container

We have Docker for this presently. Many customers have requested this, particularly those support OpenShift and RHEL Linux.
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

Add onconfig parameter to not allow slow alters.

Add an onconfig parameter so that slow alters are not allowed by default. This is to prevent outages for customers from long transaction rollbacks.
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

MSG_DATE format should follow $DBDATE if defined

Several customers would like the format of the date written to online.log when we have the MSG_DATE parameter defined/activated to follow the format of DBDATE.Currently it seems to follow the American standard (MONTH / DAY / YEAR2).
about 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Option to get a warning if strings are truncated during an insert

There should be an option to get a warning if strings are truncated during an insert. Especially this warning is needed when a string is inserted using the functionality of encyption. If the encrypted string is truncated during insertion, the reco...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Functionality already exists

Add constant to centralized Key of ER Consolidation Model

We want to consolidate the data from our stores to one centralized server, but we can't modify the existing tables. Each store is identical. We need the consolidated model to have an additional value in the unique key of the centralized server of ...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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