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Column level encryption, an option to cleanup passwords on certain/all rows for DBSO or Informix

All users which are granted permissions for insert/modify data into tables are also allowed to use their own password for column level data encryption. But not all user are their whole lifetime in the company and move. What happened with their dat...
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Column encryption, select rows with different passwords without errors

When using char/varchar columns with the option of encryption each user can choose his own password and more worse multiple passwords. All is well in case I read the data without decrypt() then I see the raw data for encrypected data and the real ...
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

determine length of data stored in smartblob

Just because data is stored as a smartblob not blob, we have to go to a work around solution to get "LENGTH" of blob stored. By using length(smartblob) the amount of bytes stored in the smartblob should be returned. The LENGTH function works if ...
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Functionality already exists

Feature Request: Allowing dirty read capability beyond ETX 1.31.xC2

IDS 11.70.FC7W2 OS AIX 6.1 ETX version expression) DataBlade version: Excalibur Text DataBlade Release 1.31.FC1X3 Problem: Due to the fix of IC73561 may have introduced the new behaviors on 1.31.xC2 that impact customer's current operation. Custom...
almost 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Table statistics are zero'd from sysptprof everytime it is not open or there is no sessions accessing it.

Our understanding is that tblspace profile should remain in the records as long as 'onstat -z' is not issued. Besides, we are aware of situations when table profile is reset, while several sessions are still accessing the table. Therefore, we find...
almost 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Parallel index build and check is not supported on table with interval and range fragmentation.

CUSTOMER: CLEARTECH LTDA CONTACT.: Celso Cabral PRODUCT.: INFORMIX 11.70FC4X4 OS......: Red Hat Customer want to know how to if INFORMIX may use parallelism to create index using fragment by range and interval. eof--------------
almost 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

idsdb0018461

Further to our discussion to PMR: 05530,999,780 we had the impression that feature request idsdb00184614 it will be included in 11.7 xc8 but it looks like there is a code freeze.It is very urgent to have this feature implemented ASAP.
almost 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Get database transaction info on dbaccess

Onmonitor has disappeared on 12.10. dbaccess → Database → Info should have a method to retrieve the transaction level of a database (Buffered, Unbuffered, Ansi, None)
about 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 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 12 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 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration