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Informix Server

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Data Masking in INFORMIX

Our objective is not to see any sensitive data outside the production systems. As an example here is our real requirement. In a PROD environment, we can see the table data as usual . For data protection purposes, the data of the same table needs t...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

Convert Log "Raw" data into SQL Statements

archecker and onlog should be able to output analyzed onlog raw information and convert it to SQL Statements
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Smart Trigger API for Java to monitor smart trigger session changes at the backend DB

The Smart Trigger Java library allows for the use of a detachable session which is assigned a session ID. One can use this session ID to reconnect to an existing session when starting up a Smart Trigger. But, if for some reason this session ID in ...
10 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Enhance dbschema to generate SQL for sysuser entries

The sysadmin users is used to store: PAM trusted users (sysauth) trusted contexts (systcxusers, systcxattributes, systrustedcontext) local users (syssurrogates, sysusermap) Dbschema should be extended to allow generated DDL for: trusted...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Increase the length of Informix usernames

Within Informix the username is defined as char(32). The Informix feature "Informix trusted context" enable Informix to be used with Federated Authentication, in such cases the impersonated user is identified using an email address. In view of thi...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Add support for system versioned tables

This feature is about having native support to version data within the table. The application will always be able to access the most current data, however through pseudo columns or via other means older version of the data is available. This featu...
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

Add command to move data from a chunk to remove it

Add a command , at onspaces or sql task() , to force free a chunk, moving the data to another chunks with available space at same dbspace.With that will allow to exclude the cleared chunk from the dbspace.
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Allow MAX_PDQPRIORITY to be configurable per user.

We want to Informix to be able to use PDQ but we would not want 3rd party logins to be able to use PDQ and impact processing. The existing onconfig parmeter should be a default is it is not defined for the user.
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Allow External Backup on HDR Secondary

It should be possible to run external backups on HDR Secondary (beneath unbar/ontape backups). Probably the necessary enhancement is just to implement onmode -c block/unblock on HDR secondaries (update reserved pages).
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add onmode -F <type> to free only certain memory e.g. vpcache.

When having e.g. excessive vpcache usage we need to free the memory and associated shared memory segments for just the vpcache. Our use case was smx buffers to it would be even better to be able to just free the 'free' smx buffers.Trying to free a...
8 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration