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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

Client SDK Release For Linux Repositories

For most other major databases you can install a database driver from the standard package management repository. "apt-get install mysql-client" "yum install postgres-dev", etc. It easily allows systems to be set up to communicate and work with th...
9 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

Make it possible to use relative paths, environment variables, and clustername in #include paths

Currently, there is no way to say add a file in the lsb.queues file as using any of these patterns: #include "./lsb.queues.cloud" #include "/some/path/{{ cluster }}/lsb.queues.cloud" #include "$LSF_ENVDIR/lsb.queues.cloud" Having support with any ...
2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1

bhist - Add support for customized output format ("-o" option)

Some LSF CLI commands support customized output format ("-o" option). For example, bjobs command:bjobs -o "JOBID USER JOB_NAME START_TIME" Currently "bhist" command doesn't support "-o" parameter and it would be appreciated if it can be added in t...
5 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration

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

Release 32-bit version of Informix CSDK v4.50

Some customers are constrained and need to continue to use Informix 32-bit CSDK drivers. Their applications currently use the Informix 32-bit libraries & there are often build constraints to moving to a 64-bit CSDK.
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 5 Not under consideration