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Informix

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Informix should be supported as a Kubernetes based Database inside of the Container

We have Docker for this presently. Many customers have requested this, particularly those support OpenShift and RHEL Linux.
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

Clone a database

I routinely need to clone a Production database (not the whole instance) onto another instance on another machine. Formerly, I used onunload to do this, and worked like a charm. However, onunload does not work with blobs, and after we incorporated...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Functionality already exists

Allow defining rolling container windows defined on user defined calendars

Currently time series rolling window containers can only be defined to use a predetermined set of calendars to define the number of time points included in each window. Those are: day, week, month, and year. There is a need for more flexibility. T...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Informix ER: Increase maximum allowed replicates

Our customer uses Enterprise Replication with Informix Server, spanning 530 databases, within 60 instances. We use 11.70 GE. We have hit the maximum limitation of 32746 replicates in the ER domain and it's not enough. We even had to decrease count...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow Informix to kill sessions not only limited by session-id

Informix should be able to kill sessions not only limited by session-id:For example: If a admin should kill sessions from a specific user or host a script is needed. So it would be helpfull if onmode -z would accept following syntax for example:$ ...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Request for an Informix CSDK port for MAC OS M1 processor

Is Informix CSDK 4.1x or 4.5x ported for MAC OS M1 processor? Seems like the last one available is x86_64 4.10 and I saw someone asking for a port in Dec 2021 with no response. Maybe there are some specific steps to run as a workaround using the e...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Provide a Prometheus exporter for Informix

Many organizations use unified approach to collecting, storing and visualizing metrics from various sources using at least one of the few established platforms of which Prometheus+Grafana are probably the most prominent. It would be very beneficia...
almost 5 years ago in Informix 1 Not under consideration

A tool to copy/synchronize database schemas between environments.

A tool to copy/synchronize database schemas between environments. Dbschema does not help if a test environment needs a schema refresh. A tool is needed to unload the schema and then apply the schema into another environment generating with not jus...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add onconfig parameter to not allow slow alters.

Add an onconfig parameter so that slow alters are not allowed by default. This is to prevent outages for customers from long transaction rollbacks.
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Support for datetime with timezone

Informix currently lacks an SQL standard datatype to store datetime/timestamp with timezone. This datatype is supported on other databases with different datatypes names: “TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE/LOCAL TIME ZONE” in Oracle “TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZO...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

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