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Informix

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Add command to move data from a chunk to remove it

Add a command , at onspaces or sql task() , to force free a chunk, moving the data to another chunks with available space at same dbspace.With that will allow to exclude the cleared chunk from the dbspace.
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

rsccompdict table shrink

When using compression in informix products, a special rsccompdict table is created to store dictionaries.This table can be a big one and it is stored at dbspace level.When you drop some databases, tables, purge dictionaries, this table can be emp...
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Need ability to alter timeseries container configuration

The ability to alter timeseries containers from using rolling windows to not using rolling windows and the reverse from non-windowed to windowed would by useful.
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Improve readahead performance statistic reporting

Since the improved readahead code was established, onstat -p and the associated SMI tables no longer report all readahead pages nor all usage of those pages so that it is impossible to monitor the efficiency of readahead and so be able to determin...
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Ability to rotate log files with Connection manager

At the moment the informix connection manager keeps a constant handle on it's log files You cannot rotate logfiles without firts shutting down the connectin manager
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

OnBar selective space backup restore allow non-backup spaces online but empty

Most of our customer base rely on selective space OnBar backups. As 99% of our customer base have been used a concept called Copy live database to a test database under the same instance (obviously, with different database and DBspace name) for ev...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Informix PSM to sync the LLog IDs

Be able to synchronize the Object Id, with Logical Log IDs. At least to have a onpsm option to query the object ID by the Log Id, something like this: onpsm -L detail -l
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

BTSCANNER tuning, clean index item more quickly

Clean the index item quickly for frequently modified index.
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Lock monitor, show table name and How long has waited?

onstat -k can show table name;Can save below information when lock wait occurred.1) session id and SQL statement which hold the lock.2) How long it hold the locks. 3) Table lock information.
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Index performance, Provide the indicator show that need to do reorg

Provide the indicator (index level,the percent of pieces) to show it need to do index reorg.
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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