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Informix Server

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Add timestamp on sysmater to know when an open transaction has been created

Add a creation timestamp for each transaction so users can monitor how long a transaction has been open. Maybe like in others sysmaster tables, a column on systrans will be great.
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Automatic update statistics triggered after n sequential scans

Background/automatic "update statistics low" for tables after nth sequential scan
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Request to provide support for DELIMIDENT in CDC

The feature request has been submitted earlier. Re-submitted the request again via RFE tool to track on the status. Can you please provide an update. CQ# idsdb00249320 RTC# 23793 Request to provide support for DELIMIDENT in CDC Need support for do...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

unable to update an existing column with varchar definition.

a column defined as varchar returns an error "no more extents" when tried to update. Work around is tedious as we need to unload millions of records, then reload it again.
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Planned for future release

ALTER ROW functionality for TimeSeries

Being able to alter TimeSeries rows is a critical feature for us. We are using a NoSQL option for this reason.
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Set DBSPACEDOWN for individual dbspaces

ONDBSPACEDOWN setting in onconfig affects Informix' reaction to any dbspace. However, users may have different needs for separate dbspaces. Some may be critical, others may not.Would be helpful to have the ability to override the instance setting ...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow to set Retention for Informix PSM backup images

Current Informix PSM will keep all backup images (Level 0, physical DBspaces backu, logical logs backup, config files backup) in a specific path in filesystem. PSM yet to have housekeeping tool on these backup images.
almost 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Avoid engine crash during page reads after hardware failure

the index was corrupted by a hardware malfunction, it was not corrupted by Informix, so there were very likely index pages that had been zeroed out, or had garbage on them. When engine try to access the corrupted index or data page it crashes de i...
almost 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Show mapped paths in ontape restore

Customer has two instances in same server one "real" for production and one for development. Development instance data is synchronized from real data by restoring production instance ontape Level 0. As both are in the same server, a chunk mapping ...
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Add configurable per session/per PDQ thread log cache similar to Sybase user log cache.

For high volume environments OLTP environments e.g. thousands of sessions and HDR/RSS nodes add a per session/PDQ thread log cache. This is flushed to the physical and logical log buffers either when full or at transaction commit time.
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

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