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    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 ...
    over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

    Need a function or pseudo-field to return the number of elements in a BSON array

    Put in simplest terms, if I have a JSON/BSON record with an embedded array, I need to know how many elements are in the array. I need a function similar to bson_size() (which returns the string length of the total array) which instead returns the ...
    almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

    Foreign keys to use compound indexes

    In the below the foreign key does not use the compound index. Another index is created with adds overhead. create table p1 (t char(4) not null); create unique index px1 on p1(t); alter table p1 add constraint primary key (t) constraint p1_pk; ...
    almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    Foreign keys to be able to use compound indexes.

    With the following the existing compound index is not used for the foreign key and another index is required. This adds overhead with additional maintenance. create table p1 (t char(4) not null); create unique index px1 on p1(t); alter table p1 ...
    almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    Performance indicator , same SQL should have same SQL ID in SQLTRACE

    Customer care for two dimensions, session and SQL. Show those sessions and SQL that have most resources.The same SQL has different SQL ID if the same SQL execute in different session currently.so It's difficult to summary or group by the resource ...
    over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Multi-tenant tuning,can stop and start the single tenant database

    Isolate the resource(CPU,memory,chunk,lock) for the Multi-tenant database within the same instance, and can stop and start the single tenant database, can do the failover with Multi-tenant database, switch from one machine to another.
    over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Use mapped user rather than UID in SQLTRACE data

    When getting ready to use mapped users, we have found that SQLTRACE does not distinguish the externally named users, but rather uses the local systerm's mapped user UID. This is a security and usability issue. From the usability standpoint, there ...
    over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Completely drop storage of all data and index partitions with truncate table command

    I just truncated 2 huge tables, after "alter table extent size nnnn".. It took a while for the storage to come down to new extent size, but only table partition shrunk. Index partitions was unaffected, still huge.
    over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Enable chunk rename during log recovery

    Whenever Informix performs a backup of the rootdbs, it automatically backs up Informix critical files (oncfg, onconfig & sqlhosts). When the Informix critical files are restored via "onbar -r -cf only -t <A TIMESTAMP>", it restores the l...
    almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    Prevent users with CONNECT role to perform "update statistics ... low"

    Prevent users with CONNECT role to perform "update statistics ... low" In some customers in GCG, such as Hong Kong HA and CIB found that the user with CONNECT role can perform "update statistics ... low" statement, and that would cause performance...
    over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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