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Informix

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Create an Informix-HQ sensor that populates an historical data table with the slowest/heaviest queries on an instance.

SQLTRACE has proved been a valuable resource to identify slow/heavy queries. An even sysadmin may store a history of the SQLTRACE output, it would be great to have a filter for the heaviest/slowest queries, and store them as a sensor of Informix-HQ.
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow abort defragment

Allow abort the defragment command.
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

informix HQ

Current version of Informix HQ is not able to trap and sent alert for engine in block state.
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Limit open partitions to avoid very large rsam pool

In systems with a lot of tables informix can have a very large rsam pool. This can cause informix to allocate so much memory it starts swapping or in memory limiting versions (like workgroup, express etc.) to even let the engine crash. Sometimes t...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Allow SPL variables to be used to define index directives.

Inside a stored procedure allow the index name for a directive to come from a variable:...define v_bs_index varchar(100);define p_id like tBS.id,...let v_bs_index = ( select cfg from Cfg where group = 'INDEXES' and name = 'TBS_INDEX' )...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Improvements to UPDATE STATISTICS LOW

The run time of UPDATE STATISTICS LOW can be reduced by setting the parameter USTLOW_SAMPLE which also reduces I/O by using a sampling algorithm. However the table data may be deemed to be too heavily skewed and the engine falls back to a full sca...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Accelerating Subqueries in IWA

Currently, IWA does not fully accelerate subqueries of the following two forms: 1) Subqueries in FROM clause 2) Subqueries in WHERE clause:
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add profile counter for number of long transactions since most recent "onstat -z"

Rollback most of the time is a time and resource consuming action. We would like to be able to monitor how many long transactions we (just a simple profile counter), as currently it is not easy and accurate on how to determine the amount of long t...
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Need dead connection timeout parameter

The Cisco Call Manager team was recently testing LOGINTIMEOUT settings under various conditions. This testing led CUCM to ask IBM how to control the time out once the connection has been established but then the target is suddenly no longer reacha...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Informix 4gl based Datablades

I would like the ability to create database/SPL's using Informix 4GL syntax and features. I know forms and such wouldn't work but I could then leverage legacy into efficient data retrieval processes for for Java and Typescript to access
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

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