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Informix Server

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Informix Multi Instance on zVM

SYSTEM: Informix on zLinux on ZVM 6.1 zLinux 11.2Action: Multi Instance (Residency) performance issues Informix Enterprise server is used for our Electronic Court system at the State of Mississippi. In order to save cost on system resources we dec...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Query performs poorly due to missing column group statistics

SQL chose hash join instead of index join, and performs poorly. The defect number is "idsdb00496878". It's identified to be an issue of "missing column group statistics". Please help to fix it. Thanks!
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Create a cdr client log that logs cdr command start and exit status

Cisco currently uses the CDR_FEATURES LOGCOMMANDS feature and redirects CDR client stderr and stdout to their application log file. The problem is when a CDR command fails due to a client side error, the server message log does not have any indica...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

IWA Fragment Missing

We have the Informix Warehouse Accelerator running on version 11.70FC8 and the accelerator returns zero results if you try to query against a specific fragment that is not loaded into the Accelerator.
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

SQEXPLAIN FILE IN VERSION 10 DISPLAYS SQL WITH STATISTICS, IN V11.70, SOME SQL IS NOT DISPLAYED.

Defect idsdb00497410 was opened and APAR IC98517 assigned after proper repro. Development rejected this based on the assumption that code was not complete in V10.00 as it is now after V11.50 and later editions. Product is working as designed. Cust...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

CCB SDS New requirement for test scenario 14, about arbitrator CM behavior

New requirement for test scenario 14, it will trigger failover when the arbitrator CM cannot communicate with primary server,(but there are other CM can communicate with the primary server). CCB need us to change the expected result,only if all th...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

CCB SDS New requirement for test scenario 37, about disable both arbitrator CM and primary at the same time.

CCB SDS test scenarios 37, disable the primary server and the arbitrator CM at sametime. It's a 2 points failure scenario, In current version, when the primary server and Arbitrator CM disabled at the same time point, the SDS server cannot takeove...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Equivalent of DB2 COMM_EXIT functionality

DB2 has integrated Guardium in the server via its COMM_EXIT functionality. Currently there are a lot of issues supporting Informix in Guardium. Some of the issues are correctly ignoring replication traffic, configuring for shared memory connection...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Informix HQ Enhancement

When using out of the box sensors, or creating your own custom sensor, it would be helpful to have the ability to specify a time of day to run the sensor. A real world example. Our software give customers the ability to create their own queries. W...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration