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Informix Server

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Enhance onstat -g prc information

Enhance onstat -g prc information: Last recompile datetime Add sql statement that causes this entry to last recompile if changed Add location column (module/line) similar to onstat -g afr output for last change to this entry if an object changed s...
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

Enhance onstat -g dic information

Enhance onstat -g dic information Add datetime entry was created Add sql statement that causes this entry to be created if an object changed. Add location column (module/line) similar to onstat -g afr output that causes this entry to be created if...
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

Enhance sysproclan information

Change sysproclan column created to datetime year to second. Add sql statement that caused the change Add location column (module/line) similar to onstat -g afr output This means stored procedure recompiles can be RCA'ed more easily when they are ...
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Feature request to verify backups in parallel

Hello, The onbar backup verification process runs in serial and takes a long time to complete for large databases (60+ hours to complete for an 800GB database). It would be helpful if the backup verification process could run in parallel, similar ...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Planned for future release

dbschema should always print the content in the same order that two dbschema files are still easily comparable after many changes

Use case: Find the essential dbschema changes between two releases. How can I achieve that? – With a dbschema -d database > filename for each release and compare the files. Problem: For example if functions, procedures or views are dropped and...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Add optional WHERE condition to MERGE statement

Oracle supports an optional WHERE condition for insert/update/delete operations when using MERGE on the source or target table This could be handy in some situations to skip some rows if the condition is not true.
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Informix mapped user authentication with Active Directory

Need a feature from Informix server so that Informix mapped users can also be authenticated by Active Directory. As of now, this feature is not there in Informix.
about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add Informix to HammerDB benchmarking tool

HammerDB is a leading benchmarking tool to benchmark database performance. This tool enables DBA to verify configuration of the OS/database and assess the impact of any hardware or database configuration changes. HammerDB supports DB2 however ...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Storing Large Objects in file sytem

Feature similar to Oracle "bfile" data type. Store the large object in file system.
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0

Defragment for a dbspace

Add at the 'DEFRAGMENT' SQL Api , the option to defragment an entire dbspace. We have set in our environment tables and partitions with historical data, so, they are tables or partitions who have any changes (include/excluded data). Most of th...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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