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Informix Server

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Improve performance on multifact query on an informix database

We make Cognos reports on multifacts creating multifact queries with full outer join. To keep the query execution time low, we need absolutely the enhancement/fix be implemented in the next informix fixpack 12.10. It is unacceptable when the compe...
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

A tmp database created with the server, analogous to the /tmp file system

In Linux systems (and in all Unix flavors) there is a /tmp directory or better, a /tmp file system. Anyone can create a file or directory in there and, in Linux, it cleared at boot time. (Other flavors use a cron job to clear out unused files.) I ...
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Throttle writes during chunk creation

When adding chunks to an instance which is using filesystem files there can be a large amount of disk writes in a short period of time to zero out the new chunk which can impact production systems. E.g. Adding a 10GB chunk causes unacceptable clie...
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow remote query execution inside a TRUSTED CONTEXT

A customer that has some customized "auditing" built on triggers would like to be able to differentiate the real user behind the application server. In theory they could use SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION to achieve this, either directly or better yet,...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

14.10 macOS port

Informix 14.10 should available for macOS
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Prepend machine's name to Assert files written to DUMPDIR

Scenario: The customer site uses a single network mount for DUMPDIR across hundreds of servers. Impact: difficulty in identifying AF files generated by specific servers. Current workaround: search online.log for all "stack trace for pid" strin...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

log_rotate sysadmin job for CONSOLE, PSM_ACT_LOG, PSM_DEBUG_LOG

There is a sysadmin job for rotation of logfiles for MSG_PATH, BAR_ACT_LOG and BAR_DEBUG_LOG.But for CONSOLE, PSM_ACT_LOG and PSM_DEBUG_LOG these sysadmin tasks are not configured/prepared in $INFORMIXDIR/etc/sysadmin/sch_tasks.sql
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

identify special columns with same meaning easily and modify data type

Use case: We want find columns with same meaning distributed over several tables easily either to modify the data type or find out the affected columns/tables only. For example there are price/money and other columns, each with an arbitrary colum...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Automatic Statistics table exclusion list

We have a 3 billion row table that we would like to remove from AUS selection and manually run statistics as it is failing due to exhausting the 48Gb of sort disk
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Oracel "select any table" feature

Customer need a read only user to do the extract in the data warehouse project or to do the monitor. With the 'select any table' privilege ， after customer create some new table,that user only have the read only privilege on those new tables.
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

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