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For the -12.. Conversion errors, please specify the column name.

It is quite hard to find the column that contains a wrong value in update/inserts statements with many columns in case of such an error message. For other errors the column name is in the sqlca structure. Why is it missing for the conversion error...
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Certification of Informix ESQL/Cobol on RedHat Linux 7.2

ESQL/COBOL has not been updated for many years now, but the OS is getting updates regularly. Need ESQL/COBOL to be certified on RedHat Linux as our applications are migrating to this version on Linux soon. Appreciate if you can expedite the certif...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Planned for future release

JDBC driver shouldn't require SSLCONNECTION to be set when SQLHOSTS is used

Currently, the Informix JDBC driver requires SSLCONNECTION=true for connection strings that involve a TLS database listener. But when SQLH_TYPE and SQLH_FILE are set, the sqlhosts file already contains this information in the protocol field; it th...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

Create a real IDS driver for Tableau

Hi, my customer is a long haul IDS customer who loves it. A few years ago, his team fell in love with Tableau, which resolved many business cases for his company. Unfortunately, after getting more and more demanding with Tableau functionality, and...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Performance Improvement Metrics of a SQL.

When we improve performance of a SQL by creating an index we generally try to capture and compare Time, CPU & Getpages of the sql before and after the SQL tuning is completed.If there is a way Query Tuning can help us capture using HASH TOKEN ...
6 months ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Targeted Object Analysis

Currently if we want to find if a table,Index,Database etc are access by any DB2 threads or not then we have capture info on all Authids in a subsystem and then filter on the captured info to see if the object is used or not In a CPU constraint en...
6 months ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Needs more information

In 2. View SQLCODEs, display also Host Variable values for the SQL in error

We migrated from CA Detector which display Host Variable values together with the SQL Text in error. We lost this function after migrating to IBM Query Monitor.
over 2 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Build a Informix HQ server Container

The current process for deploying Informix HQ servers and agents across 600+ sites involves manually redoing scripts and configuration files for each site. This process is time-consuming, error-prone, and difficult to scale as it requires individu...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

Switch CAE Server in Sysplex from Hot Stand By to Active while running

Hello IBM, we have the Db2 Query monitor in an active passive configuration in a Syplex. During Maintenance we begin the with the secondary side of the plex were the hot stand by instance of the Query Monitor is running. After the maintenance we w...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

CM should support majority-vote failover arbitration as an alternative to priority-based

Currently, the Informix Connection Manager handles failover arbitration on the basis of a priority setting in the ${CMCONFIG} file. This has the effect of making a single CM the judge, jury and executioner when it comes to failover events. And it ...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration