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Informix

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Add a unique return code to the oninit command if it time out when using the -w switch

Add a unique return code to the oninit command if it time out when using the -w switch
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow UDRs run with owner privileges

Create an option to 'create procedure/function' statement allow run with owner privileges (grants/role) instead of the current user (who is calling the UDR). This behave already exists when the procedure is created with DBA , it will run with DBA ...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow TRUNCATE on table with users access

As detailed on Informix Manual , the truncate statement is considered DDL and not DML and not allow execute it even if there dirty reads over the table.The request: Allow run the truncate over a table even if there users reading the table.
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Log file rotation for Connection Manager on Windows

Using the Connection Manager LOGFILE token, it is not possible to rotate logs. Therefore they become large and unwieldy
about 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Automatic Cluster Failback feature

We think Informix Cluster should have an automatically failback feature, that could physically priorize our servers (suggesting always that the primary node is in a site, for example).It would be just the same as using a Connection Manager, plus t...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Redbrick 32 and 64-bit drivers certified for IPV6 Protocol

System: Nielsen NITRO Actor: Users are migrating their VPNs from IPV4 to IPV6 due to which there is a need to certify NITRO for IPV6 protocol. Description:Nielsen NITRO is desktop application that has capability to connect to red brick databases v...
about 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

dbimport support for tenant databases

The database which is exported by dbexport is not possible to import as tenant database by dbimport. In the current implementation, the tenant database should be created by SQL Admin API first. dbimport is by default creating the new database as t...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Not under consideration

remove or enlarge the data page limitation per fragment

when the total pages per fragment reach 16775134, the new data can't insert.the customer have to :1,stop the application 2,fragment the table3,reload the data 4,create the index 5, start the application
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Handling unsupported characters

Suppose an application tries to insert a character that is not supported by DB_LOCALE. Then instead of throwing an error, a pre-defined character (e.g. an inverted question mark "¿") should be inserted.
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

No database name in "Warning: update statistics low using sampling may generate inaccurate index statistics for index"

There is not enough information in the following message that can be found in online.log: 07/19/18 02:25:27 Warning: update statistics low using sampling may generate inaccurate index statistics for index informix.ix_transacaoguia_goperadora due t...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration