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Informix

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Add functionality to speed up reading pages into buffers

Add functionality to speed up reading pages into buffers This RFE is logged because a performance problem arise with IBM Cognos software with Informix. The business complaints that when the first runner of a report runs in 20minutes and subsequent...
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

INFORMIX Servers Management table Auto Repair Tool

Database management table of (systables, sysindexes, syscolumns, etc..) information is damaged,The repair to us function when the consistency has become not be maintained.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

No more slots

Unable to connect database after reaching connection limits.And we observe very generic error as "No more slots" Want to elaborate on error message.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Only update rows in referenced tables only once per template repair (with p > 0), thus avoid deadlock & LongTX

Product in Use IBM Informix 11.70UC8X6Customer Information Duane GuthrieEmail: dguthrie@cisco.com Phone: 972-813-5115Sizing info TBDProduct Enhancement Request Abstract Request to only update rows in referenced tables (t1 and t2 here) only once ...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Sequential Detection Flag

This parameter controls whether the database manager is allowed to detect sequential page reading during I/O activity. (DB2 - seqdetect)
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

catalog database on a dbspace

Could it be possible to add a database and its dbspace from an other instance. Same as the db2 command CATALOG DATABASE database-name [AS alias] [ON path ...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Redbrick ODBC driver Certified for Windows 10

Currently we are using following Redbrick driver version in our application, Redbrick 32-bit ODBC driver version: 5.63.00.90 Redbrick 64-bit ODBC driver version: 5.63.01.30 We know that the ODBC driver versions mentioned above works on Windows 7, ...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

use spatial datatypes and functions from another database

Using spatial functions is limited to the database in which it is defined. If you have to combine a spatial function with spatial data in 2 different databases you first need to convert 1 datatype to varchar. This is slowing down the performance.
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

"Enable SQL schema expressions so 32k expression sizes are not required"

Schema expressions can be longer than 32k, since 11.70, but they are broken into a smaller series of expressions in order to support backward capability to 11.50 schema expressions. It would help to have an environment or onconfig variable which a...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

better diagnostic for locale errors

We experience -21005 errors typically during loading data to the database. The error (undocumented) means that at least one character is not supported by database locale. Unfortunately it is not sufficient to correct input data fast: there is no f...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration