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Informix Server

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onstat -g ses 0 should be officially documented

onstat -g ses 0 is a useful but undocumented option. It shows all the sessions in one hit, the only part missing from the documented onstat -g ses is the parent program name.
about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

HQ add essential incidents/events/status tracking and alerting

HQ is on its way to be a great monitoring tool. In order to ensure it is, here are some important features to add (not sure I could see them on FC3). Let's first deal with missing essential alerts:- include notion of warning and critical incident...
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Show session_id - port relationship

It would be nice to see which ports / DBSERVERNAMEs / DBSERVERALIASs are being used by session ids. Either through an onstat command or sysmaster tables.
almost 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Require NODEFDAC as a server side general setup

This is a follow up on RFE 34407.The original request was classified as "Delivered" but I'd say that veridict totally misses the point. The answer provided states that we can use informix.rc file to set the variable. That's true for UNIX. But in t...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

online alter fragment

make it possible to run alter fragment online
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Upgrade of secondary server without restore from primary

Assuming we're upgrading a sever which is a primary server in a MACH-11 cluster, it should be able to save all the new page images (of changed pages during the conversion) in the file system. Very similar to what we do in the CONVERSION_GUARD feat...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Show percentage complete on ontape restore

Would like to see the percentage complete when running a restore with ontape. Currently this is only shown when doing an archive.
over 9 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...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Dbexport/dbimport validate *_LOCALE vars before accessing data files

When working with UTF8 database, DB_LOCALE and CLIENT_LOCALE are required to interact correctly with the databases. This RFE is about issuing a warning to the DBA when doing a dbexport/dbimport with CLIENT_LOCALE unset, especially when DB_LOCALE i...
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

change serial rowid type to serial8 avoiding to reach its limit?

Serial rowids are fields in a table and are assigned to tables created with the WITH ROWID option. serial type has a smaller value scope thn serial 8, it forces customer to re-create the tables when the limit is reached
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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