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SQEXPLAIN FILE IN VERSION 10 DISPLAYS SQL WITH STATISTICS, IN V11.70, SOME SQL IS NOT DISPLAYED.

Defect idsdb00497410 was opened and APAR IC98517 assigned after proper repro. Development rejected this based on the assumption that code was not complete in V10.00 as it is now after V11.50 and later editions. Product is working as designed. Cust...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

CCB SDS New requirement for test scenario 14, about arbitrator CM behavior

New requirement for test scenario 14, it will trigger failover when the arbitrator CM cannot communicate with primary server,(but there are other CM can communicate with the primary server). CCB need us to change the expected result,only if all th...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

CCB SDS New requirement for test scenario 37, about disable both arbitrator CM and primary at the same time.

CCB SDS test scenarios 37, disable the primary server and the arbitrator CM at sametime. It's a 2 points failure scenario, In current version, when the primary server and Arbitrator CM disabled at the same time point, the SDS server cannot takeove...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Preform "EXCHANGE" to "X" tables in one unit of work

add a feature to the sql exchange command to enable one unit of work for several tables.
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

SQLTable() does not like escape sequences in catalog name parameter

My application uses the IBM Informix ODBC driver.Issue with respect to ODBC call SQLTables.As per ODBC specifications for SQLTables, the catalogname can have escape sequences ('\').Say I have a database: db_en. In my call to SQLTables,char dbname[...
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Easier management of DB2 for z/OS DSNWLMJ java environment parameters

I have a suggestion for the file created by DSNTIJMV step DSNTIJJ. The JAVAENV file is created as a separate flat file for each ssidWLMJ job created. If this was a PDS named DSN!!0.JAVAENV(DSNWLMJ), one file would contain all the java environment ...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Equivalent of DB2 COMM_EXIT functionality

DB2 has integrated Guardium in the server via its COMM_EXIT functionality. Currently there are a lot of issues supporting Informix in Guardium. Some of the issues are correctly ignoring replication traffic, configuring for shared memory connection...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

HPU should accept user defined DSNTYPE on TEMPLATE statement RFE 36361

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=36361 Currently keying any other DSNTYPE than 'LIBRARY', 'PDS', 'HFS' or 'NULL' results in the following error INZT025E TEMPLATE ERROR: INVALID OPERAND LARGE FOR OPTION DSNTY...
over 11 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide HWM for maxofilr resources

Neeed to record hwm for MAXOFILR We are a heavy user of lob data. With this zparm MAXOFILR we can control how many lob datasets are being used. But I have no way to determine of the zparm is set high or low. When we hit the value - the transaction...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Process times out due to locks held by another process. Have to resubmit the process.

Process times out due to locks held by another process. Have to resubmit the processes. The first process has an exclusive lock on a row, the second process is trying to run an UPDATE statement (see below) and times out because it can't get an UPD...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration