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Informix Server

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Automated Update Statistics and FORCE

AUS appends FORCE to UPDATE STATISTICS statements saved in "sysadmin:aus_command.aus_cmd_exe" when using C function "aus_evaluate_stats" but not when using SPL "aus_evaluator". Both need a configuration parameter to enable or disable FORCE. Some s...
about 22 hours ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Increasing LO_hdr_partn size limit in every chunk in sbspace Metadata partition

We have a system with a lot of users and big amount of BLOB/CLOB data. It's critical 24x7 application. It should be created a new sbspace about 1TB - with 8 chunks x 140GB every 6 months, because the limit in LO_hdr_partn in sbspace Metadata Parti...
about 19 hours ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Adjusting Edition Limits

With the introduction of IDS 15, storage options within an instance have become virtually unlimited. Fortunately, this has also removed several restrictions that, over the years, led to unnecessary administrative effort across different editions. ...
7 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

session setting to make an index invisible just for the current session

It would be useful to have a session setting that makes an index INVISIBLE for the current session only as well as a session setting to reverse that and make an index VISIBLE for the session. The latter might only work to reverse session level inv...
14 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 4 Functionality already exists

Informix v15 PDF Manuals

PDF Manuals are needed for offline use.
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

onaudit for informix user - exclude system databases from the audit trail

Currently, our audit tool is configured to monitor DDL and DML actions specifically for the user "Informix." This setup ensures that our audit report contains only the information necessary for business purposes. However, it is also recording acti...
27 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Provide "time to complete" estimations for specific operations

It would be nice to provide a decent estimate on the time it will take to perform atypical operations such as:Alter tableCreate IndexArchivesCould estimate time needed or provide percent progress information while operation is ongoing
27 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Limited the number of row processed with an update/delete statement

THis is similar to MS Server (and other DBs) DELETE ... TOP <N> and TOP <n> PERCENT This would help avoid LTX issues without custom SQL coding, it would minimize the time the table is locked UPDATE FIRST 10000 COUNT 0 ... N <table&g...
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Expose available kernel AIO resources

Informix has an internal queue for KAIO requests that cannot be submitted because the number of KAIO resources available to a CPU VP is insufficient. There is nothing exposing this queue and giving insight into when KAIO resources may be insuffici...
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

"Prevent the dbschema command from incrementing sequence values"

Currently, running dbschema increments the value of sequences, even when it is documented it is the expected behavior, we consider that it is not desireable.
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

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