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    ifxclone to support DIRECT_IO

    ifxclone to support DIRECT_IO Currently ifxclone changes the onconfig and removes DIRECT_IO
    almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    online alter fragment

    make it possible to run alter fragment online
    about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Add onstat -g vpcache detail to show breakdown of usage e.g. smx buffers

    . When the vp-cache grows to gigabytes we need to see why it is growing. Currently shared memory dumps have to be sent to HCL for analysis. Propose 'onstat -g vpcache detail' to show what the vpcache on each cpu vp is being used for e.g. smx buffers.
    almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Implement nested loop join of external and indexed tables

    We raised a support case for this, but creating here will help it progress. The description was as shown below. Please vote for it! Regards,Doug LawryOninit Consulting Try this in the "stores_demo" database: SET EXPLAIN ON;SELECT {+USE_NL(cust...
    almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    The function LENGTH () also for BLOBs / CLOBs

    Unfortunately, there is no SQL statement that returns the size of the blob. You have to use an external program to get such information. I wish the sql function length() worked for BLOBs/CLOBs.
    about 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Not under consideration

    UTC/GMT timestamp conversion function for Informix database

    Informix does not have a UTC/GMT timestamp conversion function. Requirement :---------------------------------1) Cast function to convert from a particular datetime to UTC datetime based on the current timezone2) Cast function to convert from sysd...
    over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

    Add onconfig parameter to not allow slow alters.

    Add an onconfig parameter so that slow alters are not allowed by default. This is to prevent outages for customers from long transaction rollbacks.
    about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Config for the server to refuse to start if shared memory segments do not use huge pages.

    When shared memory segments are not using huge pages there can be performance impact I would like an option for the engine to abort startup similar to FULL_DISK_INIT=0 if huge pages cannot be used for shared memory segments. Scenario: sysmaster sy...
    almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Allow renaming a database when BTS Index is defined

    When renaming a database that has a BTS (Basic Text Search) index defined, it fails with error -9874. In the documentation it reads: [...] The RENAME DATABASE statement fails with error -9874, however, if the specified database contains any of the...
    almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

    Support for datetime with timezone

    Informix currently lacks an SQL standard datatype to store datetime/timestamp with timezone. This datatype is supported on other databases with different datatypes names: “TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE/LOCAL TIME ZONE” in Oracle “TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZO...
    about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

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