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Informix

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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...
about 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

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, ...
almost 2 years 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

Add '#'-sign as comment identifier in dbaccess

To make migration from ISQL sql scripts towards dbaccess scripts easier it would be benificial that dbaccess would support the '#' as comment lidentifier. This identifier is accepted in ISQL and 4GL and it would be great if dbaccess would also sup...
about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Feature request to verify backups in parallel

Hello, The onbar backup verification process runs in serial and takes a long time to complete for large databases (60+ hours to complete for an 800GB database). It would be helpful if the backup verification process could run in parallel, similar ...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Planned for future release

Automatic conversion of ifx_loc_t (TEXT/BYTE) to/from ifx_lo_t (CLOB/BLOB)

We have legacy ESQL/C code using ifx_loc_t to handle TEXT/BYTE columns. Customers want now to replace TEXT/BYTE by CLOB/BLOB columns in the database... and we would avoid to touch our ESQL/C code. Informix can support simple type conversion. For e...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

dbschema should always print the content in the same order that two dbschema files are still easily comparable after many changes

Use case: Find the essential dbschema changes between two releases. How can I achieve that? – With a dbschema -d database > filename for each release and compare the files. Problem: For example if functions, procedures or views are dropped and...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Informix mapped user authentication with Active Directory

Need a feature from Informix server so that Informix mapped users can also be authenticated by Active Directory. As of now, this feature is not there in Informix.
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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