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Max connection reached- Notification

Unable to connect DB.
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Show mapped paths in ontape restore

Customer has two instances in same server one "real" for production and one for development. Development instance data is synchronized from real data by restoring production instance ontape Level 0. As both are in the same server, a chunk mapping ...
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Functionality for optimizer to prevent it to miscalculate the plan to execute derivedtable query

Functionality for optimizer to prevent it to miscalculate the plan to execute derived tables query generated by Cognos
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Killl a Query on the IWA

I would like to be able to kill a query currently being processed by the IWA accelerator using an ondwa command.
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Cannot logically restore a table when restoring smart blobs

System: IDS archeckerActor: Barmenia DBA Team We use archecker to perform table-level-restores. For various reasons it has to be on a point-in-time basis, which is not possible if a table has columns of data type blob.The following error occurs: E...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add configurable per session/per PDQ thread log cache similar to Sybase user log cache.

For high volume environments OLTP environments e.g. thousands of sessions and HDR/RSS nodes add a per session/PDQ thread log cache. This is flushed to the physical and logical log buffers either when full or at transaction commit time.
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future 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...
about 11 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.
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

ODBC driver support for HTML datatype

Extension to the ODBC driver to have support for extended data types such as HTML. This issue is with all platforms and all CSDK versions. However, for your reference, we have tried this on below CSDK and IDS version.Database Version:Informix Vers...
over 11 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
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration