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    Improve Ontape Point-in-Time Restores for Tables

    The archecker tool can be used for point-in-time restores of table data from Level 0 Informix backups in conjunction with whatever logs were created after the Level 0 backup. However, if an organization does one Level 0 backup per week, then they ...
    almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Submitted

    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.
    over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Functionality already exists

    Need ability to alter timeseries container configuration

    The ability to alter timeseries containers from using rolling windows to not using rolling windows and the reverse from non-windowed to windowed would by useful.
    over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Log DRDA listener messages to online.log similar to current logging of the SQLI listener.

    The DRDA listener (drsoctcp) is not logging any error messages to the online.log. The SQLI listener (onsoctcp) does log messages when, for example a wrong username is being used to connect to the instance: 15:45:00 listener-thread: err = -951: ose...
    over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Throttle writes during chunk creation

    When adding chunks to an instance which is using filesystem files there can be a large amount of disk writes in a short period of time to zero out the new chunk which can impact production systems. E.g. Adding a 10GB chunk causes unacceptable clie...
    almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Smart shared memory dumps

    Other database products when dumping shared memory including context relevant information. E.g. which partition was being accessed. Contents of last buffer pool page being accesssed.If the buffers pools are massive e.g. hundreds of gigabyes then t...
    almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    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 ...
    almost 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Add ability to disable temp table auditing

    Informix row level auditing masks (INRW, DLRW and UPRW) can be used to audit DML operations on application tables. During batch jobs (that use temporary tables extensively) it was noted that Informix is auditing temporary tables unnecessary causin...
    almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    Allow remote query execution inside a TRUSTED CONTEXT

    A customer that has some customized "auditing" built on triggers would like to be able to differentiate the real user behind the application server. In theory they could use SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION to achieve this, either directly or better yet,...
    about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 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 ...
    about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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