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Informix

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Backup / ReadAhead Performance

To speedup backup time, it would be nice if Informix can read with more than 64k from disk. Example 12G SAS SSD - read 100 GByte with dd iflag=direct:Blocksize Throughput Time64k 197 MB/Sec 519 Sec (8:39)256k 438 MB/Sec 233 Sec (3:53)2048k 1186 MB...
almost 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Encrypt source code for procedure/function

There are lots of ISV out there looking for security feature where it can encrypt the source code for stored procedure and function(written in SPL).
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add support for an asynchronous/non-blocking Java API

Add support for an asynchronous/non-blocking Java API called Reactive Relational Database Connectivity (R2DBC) (https://r2dbc.io/). The R2DBC driver list includes several DBMS, but not Informix. Customer case: In Huge systems with lots of users se...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

Multi Row Insert

Support Multi Row Insert: insert into table1 (col1, ..., colx) values (1, ..., x), ... (1000, ..., x) ; Using Multi Row Insert multiple rows can be inserted with just one statement. Other RDBMs provide this feature with a performance improvement o...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

NUMA aware memory allocations.

In a system with more one NUMA node sometimes best to have all memory allocated on the first NUMA node for performance. E.g. With 2 NUMA nodes with 300Gb each, pin the lowest number CPU VPs pinned to the first NUMA node and allocate all hugepages...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Permit blocking checkpoints on secondary nodes when raw tables exist on the primary node.

Currently we cannot issue a blocked checkpoint on a secondary (RSS in our case) when there exists raw tables on the primary node. We use raw tables heavily for admin jobs (mostly for the selection processing of archiving/purging jobs) to avoid swa...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

cdr migrate should allow code-set migration

If a customer needs to change the locale of a database, wants to standardize to a common locale etc then the only option is to unload the data and reload. On small databases this might be possible but for 99% of the real systems this is impractica...
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Speed option for table repack

Table repack is a powerful feature but can generate a lot of logical logs. When repacking a large table, which may take many hours, the number of logs created can easily overwhelm the log backup processes and/or cause replication lag. Potential co...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

informixhq Relate Dashbords Query with timestamp filter

InformixHQ allows you to visualize moments of stress but not to identify the queries that caused them. If we have registered the query history we can relate it to the peak of stress. It is solved simply by allowing to relate (timestamp) in the pan...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

Enhancement to DROP PROCEDURE / DROP FUNCTION syntax

Currently, the DROP PROCEDURE statement requires that the all of the procedure parameters necessary to completely identify the specific procedure. This is important due to Informix supporting polymorphic procedures, and is generally a good thing. ...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Not under consideration