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Informix

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32k pagesize dbspace

Informix has the 16775134 pages limit for one fragment. the rowsize of some user table is very wide. for those tables , if the pagesize is more big, it's small change to reach the limitation.
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Planned for future release

Better checkpoint flush statistics

Improve checkpoint flush statistics to show storage performance issues better.
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Smart shared memory dumps

Other database products when dumping shared memory including context relevant information. E.g. which partition was being accessed. Contents of last buffer pool page being accesssed.If the buffers pools are massive e.g. hundreds of gigabyes then t...
7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Allow DDL changes on a table with full row logging

We want to use CDC to replicate data changes to a different system. We do schema changes once a month, and this complicates things a lot. According to our vendor, this is a limitation for Informix only, other source systems can hande DDL changes t...
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Evaluate using io_uring for I/O in Informix Linux Platform

Create some performance tests and evaluate an architecture change in Informix to migrate AIO or Kernel AIO to using kernel io_uring Maybe it's not possible to use io_uring in Informix and nowadays, performance increase from using IO_DIRECT KAIO to...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future 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...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

MSG_DATE format should follow $DBDATE if defined

Several customers would like the format of the date written to online.log when we have the MSG_DATE parameter defined/activated to follow the format of DBDATE.Currently it seems to follow the American standard (MONTH / DAY / YEAR2).
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

extended ESQL/C login structure for solving password length problem

Status: In an application using ESQL/C authentication with instance users, a user can change his password by using sql with a passwort length greater than the 18 character limit imposed by the struct InetLogin (see case TS003855467). After the cha...
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

CM should allow LOG to be set at the SLA-level

We have a Connection Manager configuration that includes multiple SLAs. There are times when it would be incredibly useful to enable logging for just one SLA while leaving it disabled for all of the others. Currently, the only option is to spawn a...
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

Add constant to centralized Key of ER Consolidation Model

We want to consolidate the data from our stores to one centralized server, but we can't modify the existing tables. Each store is identical. We need the consolidated model to have an additional value in the unique key of the centralized server of ...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration