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Informix

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Request support for Windows 2025

Add support for Windows 2025
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products / Informix Server 1 Under review
107 VOTE

Informix should be able to change owner on tables and any other objects

If user=informix creates all database and all tables, then programmer creates table but user=informix cannot change it. Only drop it.
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Backup Individual database, not entire instance

Need a mechanism, similar to ontape, to backup a live database (as opposed to entire instance), without locking it.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Request is to provide an Informix version with ASLR turned on.

Address space layout randomization (ASLR) is a memory-protection process for operating systems (OSes) that guards against buffer-overflow attacks by randomizing the location where system executables are loaded into memory. Request is to provide an...
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

In 4GL, add support for more modern Data and Object Types

In 4GL, add support for multiple Industry standard data and Object types: String HashMap (and/or Dictionary) and HashList Data Frame (as in Python) External Record - portable, custom written records that can be shared globally or between function ...
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

In 4GL, ability to formulate and send emails

Add ability in 4GL to create a formatted email and send to selected recipients.
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

In 4GL forms, add support for a scrollable text field

In 4GL Forms, ability to define a text field or text area, where the data associated is larger than the allotted area. When the user enters data in the field/area, the data will 'scroll' either left/right or up-down, to allow the user to continue ...
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

In 4GL, Expand Character-Based forms beyond the current 24x76 size

Expand the current form-size to beyond the current 24x76 size, and allow the form to be scrollable, both left-right and up-down.
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Under review

In 4GL, ability to interrogate call stack, to determine where a function is being called from

Add ability in 4GL, within a given function, to look at the call stack, to determine what function called the current function.
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

4GL Support for direct calls to Java

Add support in 4GL to directly call Java Programs, pass arguments and receive return values
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

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