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Status Delivered
Workspace Informix
Components Informix Server
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 19, 2013

RELATED IDEAS

Option to get a warning if strings are truncated during an insert

There should be an option to get a warning if strings are truncated during an insert. Especially this warning is needed when a string is inserted using the functionality of encyption. If the encrypted string is truncated during insertion, the record is lost and can never ever be read.
  • Admin
    Karen Qualley
    Feb 5, 2026

    Thank you for the feedback. In the 15.0.1 release an option was added to get an error/warning if strings are truncated during an INSERT, UPDATE or MERGE statement, even in non-ANSI databases

    Reply
  • Admin
    Karen Qualley
    Feb 5, 2026

    Thank you for your feedback. This has been delivered in Informix 15.0.1

    Reply
  • Admin
    Karen Qualley
    Sep 25, 2025

    Comments noted and planned for future release at this time

    Reply
  • Guest
    Dec 19, 2024

    The comment about this RFE doesn't consider many factors:
    1- The issue allows for data loss independently of encryption being used or not.
    2- The reference to a warning hides the fact that the warning already exists, but the applications will not check. We need the option to raise an error like the RFE https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/INFX-I-8
    3- The suggestion that this was replaced by EaR doesn't make sense because both features exist and have different objectives

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  • Guest
    Jul 15, 2021

    Dear Customer,

    We reviewed this ideas and the mechanism mentioned in the request is replaced by Encryption at Rest functionality that was released in later releases in Informix.

    Thanks,
    Karthik Gopalakrishnan

    Reply

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