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Informix Server

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Automatic update statistics triggered after n sequential scans

Background/automatic "update statistics low" for tables after nth sequential scan
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Request to provide support for DELIMIDENT in CDC

The feature request has been submitted earlier. Re-submitted the request again via RFE tool to track on the status. Can you please provide an update. CQ# idsdb00249320 RTC# 23793 Request to provide support for DELIMIDENT in CDC Need support for do...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow to set Retention for Informix PSM backup images

Current Informix PSM will keep all backup images (Level 0, physical DBspaces backu, logical logs backup, config files backup) in a specific path in filesystem. PSM yet to have housekeeping tool on these backup images.
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

ALTER ROW functionality for TimeSeries

Being able to alter TimeSeries rows is a critical feature for us. We are using a NoSQL option for this reason.
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Set DBSPACEDOWN for individual dbspaces

ONDBSPACEDOWN setting in onconfig affects Informix' reaction to any dbspace. However, users may have different needs for separate dbspaces. Some may be critical, others may not.Would be helpful to have the ability to override the instance setting ...
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Avoid engine crash during page reads after hardware failure

the index was corrupted by a hardware malfunction, it was not corrupted by Informix, so there were very likely index pages that had been zeroed out, or had garbage on them. When engine try to access the corrupted index or data page it crashes de i...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Column level encryption, an option to cleanup passwords on certain/all rows for DBSO or Informix

All users which are granted permissions for insert/modify data into tables are also allowed to use their own password for column level data encryption. But not all user are their whole lifetime in the company and move. What happened with their ...
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Informix support for Oracle Linux (RHCK)

Request Informix IDS v11 FC9 support for Oracle Linux (Red Hat Compatible Kernel) version 6.5 X86-64 bit.
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

odbc support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1

When use redbrick ODBC on Red Hat Enterprise linux 7.1 we are getting ERROR ** (10127) Data type -8 out of range. (SQL-WS000) when we try to query char type. All works well on numeric data types. That is the reason we decided that we need updated ...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Max connection reached- Notification

Unable to connect DB.
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration