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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...
10 months 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...
10 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

the task "Table Shrink" allow to specify unit of work or duration

I used "table shrink" on large table, sometime it caused the long transaction on the other application processes due to the logical logs usage. In some cases, the size of table is large so the "table shrink" take too long and impact system on peak...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Support limit (first xx) on delete statements

Currently limiting the number of rows to be deleted like "delete first 500 from " is not supported.Only supported in simple selects.To define which 500 records are deleted, this might be an alternate solution:delete from where ID in (select first ...
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 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.
10 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Archecker table level restore utility does not compatible of handling Informix engine complex table schema clauses

Individual Table restoration 'archecker' utility only support simple schema definition contents as the schema file. However, Informix engine support complex clauses when setting up a table. E.g. When fragmenting a table based on interval based fra...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Enhance onstat -g prc information

Enhance onstat -g prc information: Last recompile datetime Add sql statement that causes this entry to last recompile if changed Add location column (module/line) similar to onstat -g afr output for last change to this entry if an object changed s...
10 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

Enhance onstat -g dic information

Enhance onstat -g dic information Add datetime entry was created Add sql statement that causes this entry to be created if an object changed. Add location column (module/line) similar to onstat -g afr output that causes this entry to be created if...
10 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

Enhance sysproclan information

Change sysproclan column created to datetime year to second. Add sql statement that caused the change Add location column (module/line) similar to onstat -g afr output This means stored procedure recompiles can be RCA'ed more easily when they are ...
10 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Make onstat -g rss log buffer(s) size configurable.

I have run onstat -g rss log and are seeing 10% cache misses on some systems. I would like the underlying buffer space to be configurable similar to etc. As per our Lab Advocate: From my interpretation of the source the information displayed on th...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration