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    Add SQL-statement COMMENT ON as in Oracle or PostgreSQL

    For some tables or columns it would be helpful to describe what the table/column is used for since the names are not always self-explanatory. Although COMMENT ON is not part of standard SQL it would be helpful to have such a statement. The DOCUMEN...
    over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 6 Future consideration

    "Prevent the dbschema command from incrementing sequence values"

    Currently, running dbschema increments the value of sequences, even when it is documented it is the expected behavior, we consider that it is not desireable.
    almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

    Improve Stored Procedures features

    We are trying to increase the usage of SP in our system environment. Migrating business code from 4GL to the database.But this process becomes very painful for our developers since the support for SPL is limited. Mainly the inexistence of a native...
    over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    Limited the number of row processed with an update/delete statement

    THis is similar to MS Server (and other DBs) DELETE ... TOP <N> and TOP <n> PERCENT This would help avoid LTX issues without custom SQL coding, it would minimize the time the table is locked UPDATE FIRST 10000 COUNT 0 ... N <table&g...
    almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

    Increasing LO_hdr_partn size limit in every chunk in sbspace Metadata partition

    We have a system with a lot of users and big amount of BLOB/CLOB data. It's critical 24x7 application. It should be created a new sbspace about 1TB - with 8 chunks x 140GB every 6 months, because the limit in LO_hdr_partn in sbspace Metadata Parti...
    over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Planned for future release

    HDR shall handle blobs which are located in a blob space

    In contrast to CLR (Continous Log Restore) is HDR not able to replicate blobs which are lying within a blob dbspace. HDR is only able to replicate blobs when they are within a table space. Work-Around: => see addional details #Customers: More o...
    over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

    Release 32-bit version of Informix CSDK v4.50

    Some customers are constrained and need to continue to use Informix 32-bit CSDK drivers. Their applications currently use the Informix 32-bit libraries & there are often build constraints to moving to a 64-bit CSDK.
    over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 5 Not under consideration

    XPS provides a dot notation for COSERVERS, this is blocked under IDS which means a change from XPS to IDS requires a complete application layer rebuild

    Migrating from a long time out-of-support XPS system to V14 requires all the <INFORMIXSERVER>.<COSERVER> notation to be change to <INFORMIXSERVER><COSERVER> as the dot notation is not supported under IDS. As XPS is long tim...
    about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 5 Under review

    Automated Update Statistics and FORCE

    AUS appends FORCE to UPDATE STATISTICS statements saved in "sysadmin:aus_command.aus_cmd_exe" when using C function "aus_evaluate_stats" but not when using SPL "aus_evaluator". Both need a configuration parameter to enable or disable FORCE. Some s...
    over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    Implement LIMIT clause in DELETE Statement

    Expand DELETE syntax implementing LIMIT clause and maybe also ORDER BY. Delete syntax can be like: DELETE [FROM] tbl_name [WHERE where_condition ] [ORDER BY ...] [LIMIT row_count ] This limit + order by syntax is already implemented in other major...
    about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

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