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    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...
    about 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

    HQ: Add a 'Hot tables" sub-menu in the Performance tab, same for LOCKS

    It would be a good thing to have, in HQ's performance sub-menu, a 'Hot tables' (and indexes) section which can be based on the output of onstat -g ppf. The idea is to have a view on the tables that are more active, and eventually click on one tabl...
    about 6 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 8 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 ...
    about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

    Smart Trigger API for Java to monitor smart trigger session changes at the backend DB

    The Smart Trigger Java library allows for the use of a detachable session which is assigned a session ID. One can use this session ID to reconnect to an existing session when starting up a Smart Trigger. But, if for some reason this session ID in ...
    about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 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 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Increase 128 character limit for ADMIN_MODE_USERS onconfig parameter

    ADMIN_MODE_USERS is a useful way of ensuring DBAs and critical monitoring scripts can connect in single user mode. Unfortunately this parameter is limited to 128 characters which is insufficient for the team we have and the three system accounts t...
    about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

    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 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Provide more granular database-level privileges than just CONNECT, RESOURCE and DBA

    We have a requirement to support a code deployment role where a user, whose job role is not a DBA, can release code into a given database. The type of things they would be doing is:* Creating and dropping procedures, synonyms, triggers, indices an...
    over 12 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 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

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