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Informix Server

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Add bloom filters similar to SQL Server.

Add bloom filters similar to SQL Server. https://sqlperformance.com/2019/08/sql-performance/batch-mode-bitmaps-in-sql-server This is complex bitmaps "This sets one or more bits in the bitmap structure according to the result of applying one or mor...
8 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add Readonly Database Connection Support

It would be beneficial to have a readonly connection when accessing the database from third party software. Many products provide the ability to connect via JDBC but they also have the ability to make changes. Example LibreOffice Base can be setup...
8 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add MDC Multidimension Clustering Tables to Informix same as DB2

Add MDC Multidimension Clustering Tables to Informix same as DB2
9 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

SQL Trace filtering

SQLTrace enable the DBA to get the query plan of all the queries executed by a user (when mode=user) or by all users (when mode=global). Given that nowadays web applications and/or APIs use connection pooling, they submit a large number of queries...
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Create a replicate table between a single instance and the root node of a Sharding

Why is it useful? It is useful because it allows archiving of very large tables. This is useful for achiving of big tables. Addicionally, it allows higher performance to the applications, since the data is distributed in several nodes. Who would b...
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add onmode -F <type> to free only certain memory e.g. vpcache.

When having e.g. excessive vpcache usage we need to free the memory and associated shared memory segments for just the vpcache. Our use case was smx buffers to it would be even better to be able to just free the 'free' smx buffers.Trying to free a...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Automátic column-level encryption at rest

In Europe we have strong laws (GDPR) protecting personal data. Nobody, even programers or DBA can access personal data if not from an audited program who grants individual access to each user able to see this information. As application examples, ...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 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.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow changing of S3 Prefix for onbar backups

Scenario is you have 1000+ sites to backup all with the same informix server name. instead of changing the informixserver name you can set prefix on the onpsm backup. this allows for reducing the amount of buckets for this setup in cases where you...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Informix Purescale

Add DB2 Purescale to Informix. This would allow high speed replication via Roce.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration