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Informix

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Ability to rotate log files with Connection manager

At the moment the informix connection manager keeps a constant handle on it's log files You cannot rotate logfiles without firts shutting down the connectin manager
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

OnBar selective space backup restore allow non-backup spaces online but empty

Most of our customer base rely on selective space OnBar backups. As 99% of our customer base have been used a concept called Copy live database to a test database under the same instance (obviously, with different database and DBspace name) for ev...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Informix PSM to sync the LLog IDs

Be able to synchronize the Object Id, with Logical Log IDs. At least to have a onpsm option to query the object ID by the Log Id, something like this: onpsm -L detail -l
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

BTSCANNER tuning, clean index item more quickly

Clean the index item quickly for frequently modified index.
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Lock monitor, show table name and How long has waited?

onstat -k can show table name;Can save below information when lock wait occurred.1) session id and SQL statement which hold the lock.2) How long it hold the locks. 3) Table lock information.
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Index performance, Provide the indicator show that need to do reorg

Provide the indicator (index level,the percent of pieces) to show it need to do index reorg.
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Multi-tenant tuning,can stop and start the single tenant database

Isolate the resource(CPU,memory,chunk,lock) for the Multi-tenant database within the same instance, and can stop and start the single tenant database, can do the failover with Multi-tenant database, switch from one machine to another.
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

change rowid to 64 bit for fragment table,to aviod rowid reach the maximum values

change rowid to 64 bit for fragment table
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Page limitation for single fragment, to avoid stop the business and recreate the table .

Remove or enlarge the 16,775,134 page limitation per fragment.
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

Performance indicator , same SQL should have same SQL ID in SQLTRACE

Customer care for two dimensions, session and SQL. Show those sessions and SQL that have most resources.The same SQL has different SQL ID if the same SQL execute in different session currently.so It's difficult to summary or group by the resource ...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration