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Informix Server

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Shorten the time spent by "onstat -z" when zeroing internal structures

As was diagnosed in ticket TS002495910, in customer's system "onstat -z" processing is causing about 1 second "block" every 5 minutes for all threads, that needed to acquire the global mutex. This causes problems in customer's system (one of the l...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

create a foreign key allowing one to one tables relationships

Our Primary Key and Foreign key constraints always have allowed creaing and ensuring '1 to many' table relationships. After researching, there is no direct way to implement such a case with Informix. The only safe way is to create a primary key on...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

log capture from Read only secondary / updatable secondary

Currently I can on;y read log data from primary for CDC. I woule like to request I read the transaction logs from read only secondary server (and not primary) as Informix source for CDC and apply to target.
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0

Informix HQ should have a dark theme like grafana

No description provided
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Planned for future release

Support for ON UPDATE CASCADE

Use case: There is a table called release with a primary key id of type integer and an additional column name (the release name). And further tables (e.g. table_x, table_y, …) with a reference (foreign key) to release.id. The working tables are ta...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Future consideration

cleanup of ER structures if ER was not in use prior to utilizing 'cdr migrate server'

If Enterprise Replication did not exist prior to the execution of cdr migrate server, then the utility should as its last step, at user option, dismantle and remove all Enterprise Replication structures in the background that were created to do th...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

byte and text partitioning

Ability to partition byte and text data stored in blobspace. Eg. create table table1 (,,, colx byte in (blobspc1, blobspc2) ) ... This allows the byte/text data to be partitioned across multiple blobspace so that the blobspace size will not be sk...
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

No database name in "Warning: update statistics low using sampling may generate inaccurate index statistics for index"

There is not enough information in the following message that can be found in online.log: 07/19/18 02:25:27 Warning: update statistics low using sampling may generate inaccurate index statistics for index informix.ix_transacaoguia_goperadora due t...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Multi-tenant tuning,can stop and start the single tenant database

Isolate the resource(CPU,memory,chunk,lock) for the Multi-tenant database within the same instance, and can stop and start the single tenant database, can do the failover with Multi-tenant database, switch from one machine to another.
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Performance indicator , same SQL should have same SQL ID in SQLTRACE

Customer care for two dimensions, session and SQL. Show those sessions and SQL that have most resources.The same SQL has different SQL ID if the same SQL execute in different session currently.so It's difficult to summary or group by the resource ...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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