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Informix Server

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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 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 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...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Functionality already exists

CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW

The materialized view functionality will increase the performance.
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Add MPP/DPF/XPS Clustering to Informix

DB2 has MPP/DPF, Oracle has RAC, Sybase has Cluster Edition. Informix used to have XPS, where is the ability to scale out Informix?
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

14.10.FC6 multiple page sizes for temp dbspaces - intelligent use based on page size.

Intelligent use of temp dbspaces with multiple pages.
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

NUMA aware memory allocations.

In a system with more one NUMA node sometimes best to have all memory allocated on the first NUMA node for performance. E.g. With 2 NUMA nodes with 300Gb each, pin the lowest number CPU VPs pinned to the first NUMA node and allocate all hugepages...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Add onmode -F <type> to free only certain memory e.g. vpcache.

When having e.g. excessive vpcache usage we need to free the memory and associated shared memory segments for just the vpcache. Our use case was smx buffers to it would be even better to be able to just free the 'free' smx buffers.Trying to free a...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

use raw table to bulk load/huge files in Informix cluster

raw table load and copy of raw table data availability read only secondary, RSS sec. in a HDR cluster. A big one for us. How do we load billion + row table in a HDR cluster without consuming too many logical logs? Is there a way to load a raw tabl...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Implement Oracle "Flashback Database and Restore Points"

Implement same functionality as Oracle Flashback Database and Restore Points. There regular procedure to restore data with Informix is to restore either the entire instance or some dbspaces. This procedure can be very long (5 hours+) when high dat...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Create an InformixHQ sensor to obtain the slowest queries directly from InformixHQ repository instead local SQLTRACE on the instance..

Complementing idea INFX-I-557, it would be great if we may have the report of the heaviest/slowest queries from the InformixHQ repository, instead the local SQLTRACE tables.
7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration