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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 databases ...
over 5 years ago in Informix 1 Not under consideration

Feature Request: Allowing dirty read capability beyond ETX 1.31.xC2

IDS 11.70.FC7W2 OS AIX 6.1 ETX version expression) DataBlade version: Excalibur Text DataBlade Release 1.31.FC1X3 Problem: Due to the fix of IC73561 may have introduced the new behaviors on 1.31.xC2 that impact customer's current operation. Custom...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Table statistics are zero'd from sysptprof everytime it is not open or there is no sessions accessing it.

Our understanding is that tblspace profile should remain in the records as long as 'onstat -z' is not issued. Besides, we are aware of situations when table profile is reset, while several sessions are still accessing the table. Therefore, we find...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Parallel index build and check is not supported on table with interval and range fragmentation.

CUSTOMER: CLEARTECH LTDA CONTACT.: Celso Cabral PRODUCT.: INFORMIX 11.70FC4X4 OS......: Red Hat Customer want to know how to if INFORMIX may use parallelism to create index using fragment by range and interval. eof--------------
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 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...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

idsdb0018461

Further to our discussion to PMR: 05530,999,780 we had the impression that feature request idsdb00184614 it will be included in 11.7 xc8 but it looks like there is a code freeze.It is very urgent to have this feature implemented ASAP.
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Get database transaction info on dbaccess

Onmonitor has disappeared on 12.10. dbaccess → Database → Info should have a method to retrieve the transaction level of a database (Buffered, Unbuffered, Ansi, None)
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

OAT Top Level Dashboard Flexibility

Please add a feature to allow a user to modify which categories have icons on the top dashboard that displays multiple instances. There should be a way to add a description of each instance (in our case all stores for example have the same instanc...
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

OAT - ability to tune the I/O top level dashboard icon

Please add the ability to tune how sensitive the ICON for i/o is on the top level dashboard that shows all servers. We use VMs, and all our VMs show a red level of performance for I/o activity. As long as our applications are meeting their SLAs, w...
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

HDR restart mechanism for Primary server.

HDR needs a mechanism to restart when the smx thread exits due to timeouts. (happened twice to us on our Primary HDR server). If the smx thred is restarted (which occurred several times),there is no message posted in the online log indicating so. ...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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