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Informix

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create indexes for external tables

External tables are a great asset for ETL, and extending a bit the concept, they could be the base for a great ETL client.Often, one external table is the source of several ETL tasks, therefore it must be read sequentially several times, even if t...
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Show session_id - port relationship

It would be nice to see which ports / DBSERVERNAMEs / DBSERVERALIASs are being used by session ids. Either through an onstat command or sysmaster tables.
about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

insert into table default values

A number of database vendors offer insert into table values() or insert into tables default values;
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow PAM in OleDB clients (for password mode)

Currently OleDB clients can't connect to PAM enabled ports.We recently allowed PAM connections for DRDA connections if in password mode (APAR IC99560). I'd say there is no reason why OleDB wouldn't work for password mode, just like it was implemen...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Transparent LDAP Authentication for Informix

The Informix (AVL) customer T-Systems/Deutsche Telekom AG requests transparent LDAP authentication for Informix. Last year T-Systems/Deutsche Telekom AG replaced the complete HP-UX hardware for the application REBELL/Ironman by IBM Power AIX machi...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Commit Interval for Implicit Transactions

Allow user to set a commit interval in rows or time for SQL statements not contained in an explicit begin work/commit work block.
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

UTF8 should be handled in background instead of setting SQL_LOGICAL_CHAR

More and more customers have to include data from all over the world. The solution for this is UTF8, but for now this feature does not work in the background and add space if needed. The feature is implemented using SQL_LOGICAL_CHAR as configurati...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add Materialized Views to Infomrix same as Oracle and DB2

Add Materialized Views to Infomrix same as Oracle and DB2
8 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Under review

Allow INSERT to write to external tables

Currently one can only write to an external table by selecting from an existing table. There are many uses for writing to an external table that do not involved writing only the results of a SELECT query. Combined with RFE INFX-I-61, Appendable Ex...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

enhancements to sysprocedures table and dbschema utility

Currently, there does not appear to be anything in the sysprocedures table to identify which procedures are provided by Informix (system routines) vs those created by users (user routines). The mode column does not appear to address this particula...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration