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Informix Server

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Allow dropping of distributions on specific columns; today it is only possible to drop all distributions on a table

We have a large system of many Tbs and as a legacy of Art Kagel's "dostats" we have distributions on all columns of all tables. These distributions are not needed and we have to spend considerable database resources keeping these up to date. We'd ...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

restore to point in time when using external table with archecker

With IDS11.7 , when using external table, I could only restore the table being deleted from the instance Level 0 backup with archecker, can't restore those data from logical log. If i use normal table, archecker could restore the data from both th...
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Would like OPT_SEEK_FACTOR as a session set environment option

In 11.70, a new "seek cost" component for index costing was introduced, the purpose of which was to more accurately reflect the cost for seeking in an index scan (when index is not clustered) for large indexes. OPT_SEEK_FACTOR is an undocumented O...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Unable to Remove Previous Informix FC version from Windows Programs and Features

I tried to install the Informix Fix Pack in another folder as instructed by IBM support. However the Informix FC version stays the same and there is a an error or bug in uninstalling the previous Informix FC versions from the Windows Programs and ...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Is a defect

Use mapped user rather than UID in SQLTRACE data

When getting ready to use mapped users, we have found that SQLTRACE does not distinguish the externally named users, but rather uses the local systerm's mapped user UID. This is a security and usability issue. From the usability standpoint, there ...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Completely drop storage of all data and index partitions with truncate table command

I just truncated 2 huge tables, after "alter table extent size nnnn".. It took a while for the storage to come down to new extent size, but only table partition shrunk. Index partitions was unaffected, still huge.
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Informix HQ Enhancement

We are checking if we can use Informix HQ for our Production system. We have noticed Informix HQ doesn't have AD integration on it. There's not much auditing /logging on what has changed on the Informix HQ.
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Prevent users with CONNECT role to perform "update statistics ... low"

Prevent users with CONNECT role to perform "update statistics ... low" In some customers in GCG, such as Hong Kong HA and CIB found that the user with CONNECT role can perform "update statistics ... low" statement, and that would cause performance...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Develop functionality to see amount of logs used per session

Create a functionality to check at any given time the number of logs that are using a session
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Identify User created procedure

As per case opened with IBM 'TS005358731' , currently it is not possible to identify user created function/procedure . so kindly develop a mechanism to identify user and system related function/procedures.
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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