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Informix

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Support for ON DELETE SET NULL and ON UPDATE CASCADE clauses in FOREIGN KEY statements

A customer wanted to use a construction like ALTER TABLE detail_table ADD CONSTRAINT FOREIGN KEY (link_column) REFERENCES master_table ON DELETE SET NULL; so that referencing values would be updated to NULL automatically if a parent row was delete...
7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Indexable external tables

Create a new class of external table that can be indexed and accessed via index(es).
5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted
105 VOTE

Informix should be able to change owner on tables and any other objects

If user=informix creates all database and all tables, then programmer creates table but user=informix cannot change it. Only drop it.
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Multi-Vector Functionality

Multi-Vector Database functionality (like Milvus). May be an additional functionality like time-series or as datablade like geospatial and text-search.
5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Backup Individual database, not entire instance

Need a mechanism, similar to ontape, to backup a live database (as opposed to entire instance), without locking it.
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration
108 VOTE

Obtain the query plan of a running query

Many times a DBA is called to check upon a slow process. Most of the times those processes are running a slow query.Sometimes it's hard to know if the query is using the best query plan or not. A DBA can reproduce the query, but it it was prepared...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0

Onaudit add events at the statement level for object read/write

To efficiently audit table/index access - audit at the statement level.
6 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Add option to set explain on to see what the optimizer is doing.

Add option to set explain on to see what the optimizer is doing. - Which statistics were looked at - Relative costs for table scan/index usage - Why a given index is not used - Which join orders are considered - Why join orders are excluded from t...
5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Add Materialized Views to Infomrix same as Oracle and DB2

Add Materialized Views to Infomrix same as Oracle and DB2
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Under review

Add option to remove last 20 terminated sessions from onstat outtput

https://community.ibm.com/community/user/hybriddatamanagement/discussion/avoid-to-see-the-last-20-sessions-terminated-in-onstat?ReturnUrl=%2fcommunity%2fuser%2fhybriddatamanagement%2fcommunities%2fcommunity-home%2fdigestviewer%3fcommunitykey%3dcf5...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration