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Informix

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Provide "time to complete" estimations for specific operations

It would be nice to provide a decent estimate on the time it will take to perform atypical operations such as:Alter tableCreate IndexArchivesCould estimate time needed or provide percent progress information while operation is ongoing
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Give ISAM/tabid when syspurge() fails

We had a purge that was failing for a protracted period and it took a lot of trapping and tracing to figure out why, since the full error details were not being reported. In the interim, performance degraded and we risked running out of space.
7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Request support for Windows 2025

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

LVARCHAR support via 4GL application

Due to the implementation of a number of new functionalities and the constantly growing database, we have to switch tables from CHAR to LVARCHAR in several Bank systems, this functionality will save space but also make queries in the database more...
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

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...
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 6 Future consideration

Request Full Compatible GSKIT with HCL INFORMIX SERVER

With the newest HCL Informix 14.10.FC11W1X2 it is neccesary to set ENV 'ISI_GSK_FIPS_MODE=OFF' on every IBM CSDK GSKIT Client to get a working SSL Connection to a HCL INFORMIX 14.10.FC11W1X2 OPENSSL SERVER. A GSKIT is needed where it is not necces...
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

Have a Event alarm ID for allocating an new virtual shared memory segment

Add a EVENT_CLASS value for event of Server's dynamically allocating an new virtual shared memory segment
8 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

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 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

FOT Indexes to support OR queries

FOT Indexes to support OR queries.
10 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Add Materialized Views to Infomrix same as Oracle and DB2

Add Materialized Views to Infomrix same as Oracle and DB2
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Under review