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Request support for Windows 2025

Add support for Windows 2025
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products / Informix Server 1 Under review

Force the use of Connections

This would allow admins to prevent users from hard-coding credentials in pipeline
3 months ago in StreamSets 2 Future consideration

Support for Elasticsearch 9.x

Elasticsearch released v9.x in April 2025; would be needed to add this support to StreamSets
3 months ago in StreamSets 0

JDBC suport of collection data types in scroll cursors

Currently the usage of collection data type columns in scroll cursors are disabled by default throwing an Exception with this stack trace. Stack trace returned is: at com.informix.util.IfxErrMsg.buildExceptionWithMessage(IfxErrMsg.java:416) at com...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Enable HDR Secondary to perform archives

Modify HDR code to add a state whereby the secondary server can be allowed to perform ontape and onbar archives. Whether the server can remain in secondary mode or must be changed to an intermediary mode are both acceptable options, as long as the...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Auth token renewal feature in the HTTP destination

Please refer to the support case TS018758718 and engineering intervention INT-3254.
3 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Expose available kernel AIO resources

Informix has an internal queue for KAIO requests that cannot be submitted because the number of KAIO resources available to a CPU VP is insufficient. There is nothing exposing this queue and giving insight into when KAIO resources may be insuffici...
10 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Improve timestamp format in message and backup logs (ISO-8601)

Streaming messages to log ingestion systems, e.g. Elastic Stack, is a useful way of analysing logs and generating notifications when certain messages are seen. Displaying the messages in the right order when daylight saving switches occur is an is...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Expand credential fields to include. endpoint URLs

Expand credential fields to include endpoint URLs. This would allow better security for example in the case where a Redis URL contains a password as well as better parameterization whenmoving connections across environments. One can already retrie...
7 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Have a Event alarm ID for allocating an new virtual shared memory segment

Add a EVENT_CLASS value for event of Server's dynamically allocating an new virtual shared memory segment
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted