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Informix

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Global cursors in SPL

I would like the ability to define a global statement and global cursor that can be shared between routines within a single session. This would allow for modular code and create tremendous increases in performance and memoory usuage
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future 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...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add onmode -F <type> to free only certain memory e.g. vpcache.

When having e.g. excessive vpcache usage we need to free the memory and associated shared memory segments for just the vpcache. Our use case was smx buffers to it would be even better to be able to just free the 'free' smx buffers.Trying to free a...
over 1 year 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

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...
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Automátic column-level encryption at rest

In Europe we have strong laws (GDPR) protecting personal data. Nobody, even programers or DBA can access personal data if not from an audited program who grants individual access to each user able to see this information. As application examples, ...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

DBSPACETEMP environment variable needs to accommodate multiple page sizes concurrently

When using DBSPACETEMP, the listing in onconfig is limited to one pagesize. The environment variable for DBSPACETEMP also allows for one page size. The engine needs to be able to pick the correct pagesize for temp space usage, and the current arch...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add ability to grant 'connect' to database to a role instead of just an individual user

I would like to see the ability to grant 'connect' on the database to a role as you can in Oracle and DB2. It seems counterproductive to ease administration by allowing object grants to a role and then forcing individual grants to connect to the d...
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Certification of Informix Connection Manager with ESQL/COBOL

We are implementing Informix Connection manager with HDR as High Availability solution for our organization. During testing, we identified connection manager is not certified for ESQL/Cobol, our business-critical application is written in Cobol. i...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 3 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