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Informix Server

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ifxclone to not change BUFFERPOOLS

ifxclone to not change BUFFERPOOLS when running.
over 1 year 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...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 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

Better checkpoint flush statistics

Improve checkpoint flush statistics to show storage performance issues better.
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW

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

Config for the server to refuse to start if shared memory segments do not use huge pages.

When shared memory segments are not using huge pages there can be performance impact I would like an option for the engine to abort startup similar to FULL_DISK_INIT=0 if huge pages cannot be used for shared memory segments. Scenario: sysmaster sy...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add onstat -g vpcache detail to show breakdown of usage e.g. smx buffers

. When the vp-cache grows to gigabytes we need to see why it is growing. Currently shared memory dumps have to be sent to HCL for analysis. Propose 'onstat -g vpcache detail' to show what the vpcache on each cpu vp is being used for e.g. smx buffers.
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow DDL changes on a table with full row logging

We want to use CDC to replicate data changes to a different system. We do schema changes once a month, and this complicates things a lot. According to our vendor, this is a limitation for Informix only, other source systems can hande DDL changes t...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

For RSS and HDR nodes partition the apply work by transaction id instead of partnum.

For RSS and HDR nodes currently the apply work is partitioned across threads by partnum, We would like the option to partition the work across apply threads by transaction id. Currently RSS apply threads have to syncronise with the other apply...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Evaluate using io_uring for I/O in Informix Linux Platform

Create some performance tests and evaluate an architecture change in Informix to migrate AIO or Kernel AIO to using kernel io_uring Maybe it's not possible to use io_uring in Informix and nowadays, performance increase from using IO_DIRECT KAIO to...
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

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