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    session setting to make an index invisible just for the current session

    It would be useful to have a session setting that makes an index INVISIBLE for the current session only as well as a session setting to reverse that and make an index VISIBLE for the session. The latter might only work to reverse session level inv...
    9 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 4 Functionality already exists

    Add Materialized Views to Infomrix same as Oracle and DB2

    Add Materialized Views to Infomrix same as Oracle and DB2
    over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Under review

    Add in a "cdr learn server" or something similiar to connect two servers on an ER domain that may not have known about each other previously.

    Servers and networking change around. There may be cases where two ER nodes who previously were unaware of each other or 'forgot' about each other need to be reconnected. Right now the only way to resolve this cleanly is to drop one of them from t...
    8 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Add option to remove last 20 terminated sessions from onstat outtput

    https://community.ibm.com/community/user/hybriddatamanagement/discussion/avoid-to-see-the-last-20-sessions-terminated-in-onstat?ReturnUrl=%2fcommunity%2fuser%2fhybriddatamanagement%2fcommunities%2fcommunity-home%2fdigestviewer%3fcommunitykey%3dcf5...
    almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    FOT Indexes to support multi-index scans

    FOT Indexes to support multi-index scans
    over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Implement LIMIT clause in DELETE Statement

    Expand DELETE syntax implementing LIMIT clause and maybe also ORDER BY. Delete syntax can be like: DELETE [FROM] tbl_name [WHERE where_condition ] [ORDER BY ...] [LIMIT row_count ] This limit + order by syntax is already implemented in other major...
    over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

    DB2 version upgrade readiness check to be introduced in DB2 for z/OS agent

    This request was discussed in Large Systems Update & Db2 Update - Finland on 18/9/2025 to help sysprogs and DBA's with version upgrade readiness check . The agent should help the technicians in a way that target object list along with solution...
    3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Agent / Techzone | Private Beta 0 Submitted

    Allow Bufferpool Min_lru_dirty and Max_lru_dirty Threshold values to be altered dynamically

    onparams -b can be used to add a new bufferpool and AUTO_LRU_TUNING are available on informix server but first only adds a bufferpool of a new page size and the latter only kicks in if some foreground writes occur on a server which ideally is neve...
    almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Future consideration

    Appendable External Tables

    Need an option to open/create an external table that appends to the file(s) defined on the table on insert rather than overwriting the file(s).
    over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    Ability to sync tables to HDR & RSS secondaries when converting from RAW to STANDARD mode.

    It is significantly faster to load a table in TYPE(RAW) mode than TYPE(STANDARD) mode. However, this option is not practical for sites using HDR and/or RSS secondary servers for replication as RAW mode tables do not replicate forcing the site to b...
    over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

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