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Informix

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Internal hash tables - remove limit on amount of data.

As per case TS006348841 currently internal hash tables have a limitation on the amount of data that can be copied into the internal hash table "At the end all the rows/columns must be copied into a hash table. And this is too much data." E.g. A gr...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add sql causing change when dictionary entries become dirty.

When onstat -g dic entries become dirty add sql causing this to the onstat -g dic output.This would allow diagnosing issues better. This does not need to be persisted to storage. When sysprocplan entries become invalid this would also allow diagno...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

optimize the interval fragment

when using interval fragment with date or datetime column, the latest fragment is in the last one, so the performance of the Insert will become slow. if Informix can keep the latest fragment as the first fragment, it will improve the performance o...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

change the bufferpool size online

when I add the new dbspace, the page size is 16 k; Informix add a default bufferpool , I forget to create the bufferpool using onparams firstly, later I found it's too small, can't meet the performance requirement, I found I have no method to chan...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Allow disabling automatic Next Extent calculations

Informix automatically doubles the Next Extent size for every 16 extents on a table. This action will continue until an extent is large enough to provide at least 10% free space. On very large, slow-growing tables, this can lead to an incredible w...
about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

alter table online when modifying char length without killing the sessions

today my db is accessed through many web server. the main table is frequently modified : char increased and new fields. i had to bounce the engine to remove all the sessions easily.
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

4.50 macOS Client Drivers

Targeting Developer, students, and consultants creating apps on macOS
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Commit Interval for Implicit Transactions

Allow user to set a commit interval in rows or time for SQL statements not contained in an explicit begin work/commit work block.
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

UTF8 should be handled in background instead of setting SQL_LOGICAL_CHAR

More and more customers have to include data from all over the world. The solution for this is UTF8, but for now this feature does not work in the background and add space if needed. The feature is implemented using SQL_LOGICAL_CHAR as configurati...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

oncheck should report all bad rowids in an index.

oncheck should report all bad rowids in an index. Current oncheck stops at the first bad rowid, this makes it impossible to tell if there is more than 1 bad rowid in an index.
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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