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Informix

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Add optional WHERE condition to MERGE statement

Oracle supports an optional WHERE condition for insert/update/delete operations when using MERGE on the source or target table This could be handy in some situations to skip some rows if the condition is not true.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Certification of Informix Connection Manager with ESQL/COBOL

We are implementing Informix Connection manager with HDR as High Availability solution for our organization. During testing, we identified connection manager is not certified for ESQL/Cobol, our business-critical application is written in Cobol. i...
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 3 Not under consideration

DBSPACETEMP environment variable needs to accommodate multiple page sizes concurrently

When using DBSPACETEMP, the listing in onconfig is limited to one pagesize. The environment variable for DBSPACETEMP also allows for one page size. The engine needs to be able to pick the correct pagesize for temp space usage, and the current arch...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add '#'-sign as comment identifier in dbaccess

To make migration from ISQL sql scripts towards dbaccess scripts easier it would be benificial that dbaccess would support the '#' as comment lidentifier. This identifier is accepted in ISQL and 4GL and it would be great if dbaccess would also sup...
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

dbschema should always print the content in the same order that two dbschema files are still easily comparable after many changes

Use case: Find the essential dbschema changes between two releases. How can I achieve that? – With a dbschema -d database > filename for each release and compare the files. Problem: For example if functions, procedures or views are dropped and...
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Informix mapped user authentication with Active Directory

Need a feature from Informix server so that Informix mapped users can also be authenticated by Active Directory. As of now, this feature is not there in Informix.
about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Informix HQ: Display kind of DBSpace type

Informix HQ (1.0.0 2019-02-07) has the functionality to display dbspaces (Storage --> Spaces). The Type column shows temporary dbspace, sbspace and dbspace. It does not show e.g. the Physical Log Dbspace. (onsta -d flag P). Furthermore HQ could...
over 5 years ago in Informix 0 Not under consideration

Defragment for a dbspace

Add at the 'DEFRAGMENT' SQL Api , the option to defragment an entire dbspace. We have set in our environment tables and partitions with historical data, so, they are tables or partitions who have any changes (include/excluded data). Most of th...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow changing of S3 Prefix for onbar backups

Scenario is you have 1000+ sites to backup all with the same informix server name. instead of changing the informixserver name you can set prefix on the onpsm backup. this allows for reducing the amount of buckets for this setup in cases where you...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Separate user for working with Informix CDC API

Currently the Informix CDC API requires the use of the 'informix' account. We would like the Informix CDC API modified so that it can run in a fully supported fashion as a separate user.
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration