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Informix Server

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Clear text passwords are displayed in onstat -g sql/ses commands for Informix user account create/modify user SQL commands

When using USERMAPPING feature to create internal Informix user accounts, it was found the SQL command executed to create an account or modify the password of an existing account is displayed in the output of onstat -g ses and onstat -g sql. Also ...
over 10 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...
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

SYSSQLTRACE SHOULD STORE HOST VARIABLES VALUE

When trying to use SQLTRACE to audit queries, in HIGH Mode, host variables are not saved in the system catalog syssqltrace table, but in the onstat -g his output. Customer needs that information in the system tables as their audit job, loads syssq...
about 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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...
over 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...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

TBLSpace can not be sized on temporary tables

Trying to use -ef and -en to size the TBLSpace on a system that use a lot to temp tables but the command fails. This is correct functionaility. Various docs/presentation etc existing stating that better performance can be gained from sizing the TB...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

DR repair index - Not applicable to RSS servers

We have an index corrupted as a result of applying a new fragmentation strategy. The index is fine on the primary but corrupted on both HDR and two RSS servers. The only way of fixing this index is to rebuild the index online which will take a hou...
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add a unique return code to the oninit command if it time out when using the -w switch

Add a unique return code to the oninit command if it time out when using the -w switch
over 11 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 ske...
over 5 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 ...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

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