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Informix - 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. ...
9 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Better search facility for filters in Informix-HQ. Like a negation NOT operator.

At the terminal, I can type onstat -u to see all sessions (actually, threads). And if I want to see sessions owned by by user jake, I would type onstat -u | grep jake . Switching to InformixHQ, selecting [Server]/[Performance]/[Sessions] I can see...
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

A user with DBA privilege should be able to change the owner of a table without need to recreate it.

When a table needs to have a different owner, it is not possible to change it without recreating such object. It is to mention that Informix 8.21 allowed the change of the owner of the table with the RENAME TABLE statement. This is very usefull wh...
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Since customers' environment needs to stay updated please make the Db2 11.5.9.0 pureScale for AIX 7.3 TL01 and TL02 certified for Power System 10. We just certified the "AIX 7.3 TL00 SP1 or higher".

It is useful to avoid security breach and avoid OS known bugs.
about 2 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

execute unload on store procedures

it would be wonderful, to be able to execute unload directly on store procedures, and not have to do an system call, so it we a native unload of data
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Submitted

Integrated Cluster solution on AIX: Move from TSA to PowerHA

DB2 has moved from TSA (Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms) to Pacemaker as integrated clustering solution on Linux. We use TSA in production, and we think this is a wise move, as TSA is not robust and manageable enough for a dependable s...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / pureScale 9 Not under consideration

we would like to raise a feature request for Informix to generate alerts or log messages in the online message log whenever index corruption is detected, as such events are currently not notified or recorded. on Informix secondary servers

In an Informix cluster environment, when the secondary server becomes the primary, any existing corruption on the secondary can be carried over without any notification. This can result in the corruption impacting all DML operations on the new pri...
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Multi-Vector Functionality

Multi-Vector Database functionality (like Milvus). May be an additional functionality like time-series or as datablade like geospatial and text-search.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Under review

Introduce Named Variables on Informix .NET Core

Named variables is a feature that is widely used by developers (specially those who use .NET Technologies) where they nominate a parameter, set him some value and them execute a SQL Statement passing the named variable as a filter.
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Make Informix .NET Core work with DRDA Protocol

The main idea of this request is: today Informix .NET Core needs ODBC from OS. Using DRDA protocol, Informix .NET Core doesn't has any ODBC dependency, which makes easy the development for applications specially when these applications were built ...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration