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Informix

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Support for nested CASE, PARTITION BY clause in the GROUP BY clause

Support for nested CASE, PARTITION BY clause in the GROUP BY clause
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Remove limitation on TEXT and CLOB datatype to have the same functionality as LVARCHAR

Remove limitation on TEXT and CLOB datatype to have the same functionality as LVARCHAR.
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Print session info for long transaction in msg log or DUMPDIR

I searched to see if anyone had opened up a RFE for the below and did not find one, if there is one then please disregard. One of our customers has now hardened down security to such a degree that I can no longer connect to the server in which Inf...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

suppress fast repeating event from running alarmprogram for each event

Recently we had an event "storm" due to many events "Lock table overflow - user id 12396, session id 716985". Due to this the alarmprogram was executed little more than 97000 in a short time. I am aware of the mechanism that is in the alarmprogram...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Upgrade without outage in HDR environment

Upgrading without an outage in an HDR environment is a big deal when rolling out upgrades in the HDR environment. With the conversion from 12.10.FC4 to 12.10.FC5 we will have a failover and thats it! Thats a HUGE win for the product but I need thi...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Accelerating Subqueries in IWA

Currently, IWA does not fully accelerate subqueries of the following two forms: 1) Subqueries in FROM clause 2) Subqueries in WHERE clause:
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

SQL skeleton for SQLTrace

SQL skelecton for SQLTrace Most of the customers' product system have to run almost 1000 transactions per seconds, it means there are about 86M transactions per day. so there will be to many SQLs would be traced by current SQL trace.so customer ca...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

UPDATE STATISTICS misleading message with AUTO_STAT_MODE active

After running Update Statistics Medium/High for Table XY, the constr_time in sysdistrib is not updated reliably. Turned out that this is because AUTO_STAT_MODE is active and statistics are only updated when determined by the engine this is necessa...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Support KAIO in cooked files using 4k formated disk for dbspaces with page size multiple of 4

Currently, filesystem on hard disk with 4k sector size disables usage of KAIO feature. Request is to allow dbspaces with pages multiple of sector size (4k, 8k, 12k and 16k) to be able to use KAIO. For sure, dbspcaces with other page sizes should r...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow more than 50 MB for UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH sort operations

UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH operations that do not use indices for sort are restricted to 50 MB before the system will use temporary space. This limit has remained unchanged for a long time and could be increased quite a lot on a modern system. ...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration