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Informix

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Add ability for 4GL to handle lvarchar columns

Add ability to handle lvarchar columns in 4gl. Currently a program will compile but dumps core when it executes.
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Functionality already exists

14.10 macOS port

Informix 14.10 should available for macOS
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Connection pooling should not lock databases if all connections are closed

In case connection pooling is enabled in the driver (no matter if using ODBC, .NET Provider or the .NET Core provider), the driver keeps connections from the pool open to the database server in order for a faster reconnect in the applications. Any...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

Remove CHAR Space Padding In ODBC Driver 4.10

Other drivers (Informix JDBC / Open Link etc) have the ability to automatically TRIM trailing spaces from character fields - we badly need the same feature applied to ODBC. We note that the VARCHAR / NVARCHAR equivalent has just been added to ODBC...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Need config param to allow user to specify what dbspaces should be used for Mongo collections

Currently (IDS 12.10.FC2X6) when a collection is created in the Informix server the dbspaces used are selected by some automated process. The user has no control where the data or indexes are placed. There should be a config parameter which could ...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Prepend machine's name to Assert files written to DUMPDIR

Scenario: The customer site uses a single network mount for DUMPDIR across hundreds of servers. Impact: difficulty in identifying AF files generated by specific servers. Current workaround: search online.log for all "stack trace for pid" strings...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

log_rotate sysadmin job for CONSOLE, PSM_ACT_LOG, PSM_DEBUG_LOG

There is a sysadmin job for rotation of logfiles for MSG_PATH, BAR_ACT_LOG and BAR_DEBUG_LOG.But for CONSOLE, PSM_ACT_LOG and PSM_DEBUG_LOG these sysadmin tasks are not configured/prepared in $INFORMIXDIR/etc/sysadmin/sch_tasks.sql
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Implement role management into informixHQ

Nowadays role management is neccecary to manage lots of users in dbms. InformixHQ should support this.
over 5 years ago in Informix 0 Not under consideration

Support plugins in informixHQ

Plugins have been an important feature of OAT, that allowed to implement your own individual neccecary administration tasks. Without this feature one would have to write another toolset. This is not desireable. It should be possible to do (nearly)...
over 5 years ago in Informix 1 Not under consideration

oncheck should check the Timeseries data associated with a table

From the docs 'Use the oncheck utility to check specified disk structures for inconsistencies, repair inconsistent index structures, and display information about disk structures.' However, if a table has TimeSeries data associated with it the TS ...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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