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Informix Server

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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

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

Informix support for Oracle Linux (RHCK)

Request Informix IDS v11 FC9 support for Oracle Linux (Red Hat Compatible Kernel) version 6.5 X86-64 bit.
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

odbc support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1

When use redbrick ODBC on Red Hat Enterprise linux 7.1 we are getting ERROR ** (10127) Data type -8 out of range. (SQL-WS000) when we try to query char type. All works well on numeric data types. That is the reason we decided that we need updated ...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Max connection reached- Notification

Unable to connect DB.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Functionality for optimizer to prevent it to miscalculate the plan to execute derivedtable query

Functionality for optimizer to prevent it to miscalculate the plan to execute derived tables query generated by Cognos
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Column level encryption, an option to cleanup passwords on certain/all rows for DBSO or Informix

All users which are granted permissions for insert/modify data into tables are also allowed to use their own password for column level data encryption. But not all user are their whole lifetime in the company and move. What happened with their dat...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration