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Informix

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Customer requesting JSON data type support in 4GL

Two customer using 4GL as main development system, request support for JSON variables or JSON casting in 4GL for being able to use BSON columns in 4GL.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

IWA: Need support for SQL function INSTR(), i.e., in-string

Informix Warehouse Accelerator (IWA) does not support the SQL function INSTR(), which allows us to search a substring within a string, and gets the location or character position of that substring inside the string. Informix does support substring...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

InformixHQ should use TimeSeries for sensor data

InformixHQ should use TimeSeries for sensor data. I wonder, why are those typical datasets not stored in timeseries. This is a major informix technology for storing sensor data.Why is informix not using its own great technology?
almost 5 years ago in Informix 0 Not under consideration

Keep ISQL, C4GL, and R4GL installation and run time > compatible with being installed in the same INFORMIXDIR with all > cu

Keep ISQL, C4GL, and R4GL installation and run time > compatible with being installed in the same INFORMIXDIR with all > currently supported Informix Dynamic Server database server software and CSDK releases Changing this functionality will ...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Alter table / table schema change timestamp in systables (or sysmaster)

systables shows the creation date of a table. It would be useful to DBA's if alter date/time were shown also. At times we want to know when a table was altered. I provided a PMR number above as one scenario where this information was needed but th...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Change MIRROR config on-fly

Allow change the onconfig MIRROR* parameters on-fly using "onmode -wf/-wm" .
about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Improve CREATE SCHEMA AUTHORIZATION statement to allow encapsulation of any DDL command

Currently CREATE SCHEMA AUTHORIZATION can be used to encapsulate some DDL statements (see https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGU8G_12.1.0/com.ibm.sqls.doc/ids_sqs_0483.htm) We would like this to be expanded to include other DDL statem...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect (TSM) version 7.1.7 certification with Informix ONBAR 12.10

Customers using earlier versions for TSM (now Spectrum Protect) needs certification of version 7.1.7 or newer with Informix ONBAR 12.10, in order to be able to upgrade the backup infrastructure.
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Multi-threaded SMX

Currently there's just one pair of SMX send/receive threads per a RSS couple. On WANs with high latency (which is fairly common with WANs) this can limit the throughput severely. Multiplexing replication traffic over a configurable amount of SMX s...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Extend currently allow maximum ER replicate count from 65,536 to 262,144 max limit.

We are an ERP based vendor and we maintain more than 2,500 tables per single database. Some of our bigger costomers maintain around 100 such required databases for various activities. We are planning to migrate/upgrade our customer servers with ne...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration