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Informix Client Products

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PDO_INFORMIX (CSDK > 2.9) do not recognize DBDATE environment variable

We are using Informix 12.10FC2WE (CSDK 4.1) with PHP and PHP is connected to the database by the PDO_INFORMIX Driver, which is based on the ODBC Driver. The Problem is that, the DBDATE environment variable is not recognized so the date values are ...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Request to support Informix C-ISAM 7.25 on AIX7.2

1)Customer application have used Informix C-ISAM for a log time.2)The application renewal project already started.3)Customer required using Informix C-ISAM 7.25 on AIX7.2.4)AIX7.2 was standard OS in this customer about UNIX enviroment.
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Support for multiple SBSPACEs for LOBS (IBM Data Server Driver)

Our product uses smart CLOB and BLOB fields. Due to their size, they are split among multiple SBSPACEs. The classic Informix Provider for ADO.NET supports multiple SBSPACEs with methods such as "conn.GetIfxClob(tableName, columnName);". The Data S...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

support for snapshot isolation in .Net code

Microsoft already supports IsolationLevel.Snapshot in .Net code.Informix has LAST COMMITTED isolation level which is equivalent.For some reasons in .NET code IsolationLevel.Snapshot is not supported on Informix database. Also there is no way to se...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Add server/host down alert to Open Admin Tool

Provide a means to have Open Admin Tool check for an informix server or a host being down and send an email when one is found.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

CSDK C++ API

Please add bigint and bigserial data types to CSDK C++ library
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

4GL - INPUT statement - Ability to EXIT INPUT but still execute the AFTER INPUT control block

It would be handy to be able to exit from an INPUT statement and (conditionally) trigger the AFTER INPUT control block. Currently if you execute and EXIT INPUT, the thread will continue after the END INPUT statement. What I am requesting is a new ...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

OAT Top Level Dashboard Flexibility

Please add a feature to allow a user to modify which categories have icons on the top dashboard that displays multiple instances. There should be a way to add a description of each instance (in our case all stores for example have the same instanc...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

OAT - ability to tune the I/O top level dashboard icon

Please add the ability to tune how sensitive the ICON for i/o is on the top level dashboard that shows all servers. We use VMs, and all our VMs show a red level of performance for I/o activity. As long as our applications are meeting their SLAs, w...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

better diagnostic for locale errors

We experience -21005 errors typically during loading data to the database. The error (undocumented) means that at least one character is not supported by database locale. Unfortunately it is not sufficient to correct input data fast: there is no f...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration