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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...
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year 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 ...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Onconfig parameter to disable automatic registration of datablades.

In high volume environments automatic registration of datablades can cause too much contention and impact processing.We would like a new onconfig parameter to disable the automatic registration of datablades.
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

SELinux policies for Informix on RHEL version 7 and upwards

At startup the Informix database spawns a number of processes, that run as unconfined SeLinux processes. From the permission perspective, some of these processes run as informix user (example: cpu and encrypt vps) whilst others run as root user (l...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Need dead connection timeout parameter

The Cisco Call Manager team was recently testing LOGINTIMEOUT settings under various conditions. This testing led CUCM to ask IBM how to control the time out once the connection has been established but then the target is suddenly no longer reacha...
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add profile counter for number of long transactions since most recent "onstat -z"

Rollback most of the time is a time and resource consuming action. We would like to be able to monitor how many long transactions we (just a simple profile counter), as currently it is not easy and accurate on how to determine the amount of long t...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

informix HQ

Current version of Informix HQ is not able to trap and sent alert for engine in block state.
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Limit open partitions to avoid very large rsam pool

In systems with a lot of tables informix can have a very large rsam pool. This can cause informix to allocate so much memory it starts swapping or in memory limiting versions (like workgroup, express etc.) to even let the engine crash. Sometimes t...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

SQL skeleton for SQLTrace

SQL skelecton for SQLTrace Most of the customers' product system have to run almost 1000 transactions per seconds, it means there are about 86M transactions per day. so there will be to many SQLs would be traced by current SQL trace.so customer ca...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration