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Informix

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Optional expiration date for default role

In modern environments with a minimum need of data protection it is mandatory to set an expiration date to user accounts. Informix heavily depends on the user management of the underlying OS. In real life users have access to different database...
almost 5 years ago in Informix 1 Not under consideration

BAR_RETRY should retry failed dbspace backup instead of complete archive

If you run a whole onbar backup (onbar -b -w -L 0) and have several dbspaces to backup and one dbspace backup failsthe complete archive must be retried. If you run parallel backup (BAR_MAX_BACKUP > 0) you also need to wait untilall dbspaces are...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Switching SDS nodes without shutting down mode

Environment OS Version - > SUN SOLARIS 5.11 IDS Version - > 11.70 Two nodes SDS cluster Story : Assume 2 nodes in SDS (Node A - Primary / Node B - Secondary) 01. Assume current primary server (Node A) unavailable due to hardware fa...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Change ER replicant name

Within ER there is no cdr rename repl functionality.
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

OnBar selective space backup restore allow non-backup spaces online but empty

Most of our customer base rely on selective space OnBar backups. As 99% of our customer base have been used a concept called Copy live database to a test database under the same instance (obviously, with different database and DBspace name) for ev...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Informix PSM to sync the LLog IDs

Be able to synchronize the Object Id, with Logical Log IDs. At least to have a onpsm option to query the object ID by the Log Id, something like this: onpsm -L detail -l
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

BTSCANNER tuning, clean index item more quickly

Clean the index item quickly for frequently modified index.
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Lock monitor, show table name and How long has waited?

onstat -k can show table name;Can save below information when lock wait occurred.1) session id and SQL statement which hold the lock.2) How long it hold the locks. 3) Table lock information.
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

DELAY_APPLY,Can be set to ms, less than 1s.

DELAY_APPLY Can be set to ms, less than 1s.
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Implement callback functions in J/Foundation for transaction events

Checked the J/Foundation documentation as well and seems like unlike C-udrs, there is no API to register a local callback function when a transaction event happens (like rollback in your case). Implementing this callback functions registering in J...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration