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Informix Server

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PN_STAGEBLOB_THRESHOLD - Set to 1Mb when first table containing BYTE or TEXT is partitioned by Round Robin

Currently, the PN_STAGEBLOB_THRESHOLD onconfig parameter is not present in the standard onconfig file, therefore it defaults to zero. It's absence also means that most DBAs will not be aware of its existence and the potential pain they are in for...
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Index performance, Provide the indicator show that need to do reorg

Provide the indicator (index level,the percent of pieces) to show it need to do index reorg.
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Informix cluser technology

when running the write application on the SDS node, the performance is very bad. and customer hope to change the architecture. with oracle RAC and DB2 purescale, the customer could run the different application (for example one is CRM, the other i...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

DDL Event Triggers

It would be good to have some kind of 'triggers' that's been activated every time when database object such as table or stored procedure is beind modifyed ( created, dropped or changed)It seems to me it could be some kind of system routines simila...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Extend currently allow maximum ER replicate count from 65,536 to 262,144 max limit.

We are an ERP based vendor and we maintain more than 2,500 tables per single database. Some of our bigger costomers maintain around 100 such required databases for various activities. We are planning to migrate/upgrade our customer servers with ne...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Need a function or pseudo-field to return the number of elements in a BSON array

Put in simplest terms, if I have a JSON/BSON record with an embedded array, I need to know how many elements are in the array. I need a function similar to bson_size() (which returns the string length of the total array) which instead returns the ...
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

Foreign keys to use compound indexes

In the below the foreign key does not use the compound index. Another index is created with adds overhead. create table p1 (t char(4) not null); create unique index px1 on p1(t); alter table p1 add constraint primary key (t) constraint p1_pk; ...
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Foreign keys to be able to use compound indexes.

With the following the existing compound index is not used for the foreign key and another index is required. This adds overhead with additional maintenance. create table p1 (t char(4) not null); create unique index px1 on p1(t); alter table p1 ...
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Change MIRROR config on-fly

Allow change the onconfig MIRROR* parameters on-fly using "onmode -wf/-wm" .
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow STOP_APPLY functionality when RSS is disconnected from the Primary

Currently Informix supports a Primary and multiple RSS servers. We have one of the RSS servers with the DELAY_APPLY config set to 12H and the 12 hours of logs get stored on the RSS server in the LOG_STAGING_DIR. Informix currently supports rolling...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Planned for future release