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Informix

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V15 sqlca structure to report BIGSERIAL & SERIAL8 value assigned by INSERT

In versions of the engine prior to v15.0 & CSDK library versions prior to v15.0, the SQLCA structure fields were int4 and could not hold the values returned from inserting to a BIGSERIAL or SERIAL8 column requiring a separate call to the DBINF...
1 day ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

"Prevent the dbschema command from incrementing sequence values"

Currently, running dbschema increments the value of sequences, even when it is documented it is the expected behavior, we consider that it is not desireable.
4 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Informix v15 PDF Manuals

PDF Manuals are needed for offline use.
13 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Informix V15 PDF Manuals

PDF Manuals are needed for offline use.
13 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Limited the number of row processed with an update/delete statement

THis is similar to MS Server (and other DBs) DELETE ... TOP <N> and TOP <n> PERCENT This would help avoid LTX issues without custom SQL coding, it would minimize the time the table is locked UPDATE FIRST 10000 COUNT 0 ... N <table&g...
28 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Please remove the error -21569 when accessing via the SQL Admin API

If you use a dbaccess or other client of a version older than 15.0.0.0 with the SQL Admin API to retrieve information from large tables, you get the error message -21569 'this client cannot create or open tables that use large rowids'. For example...
13 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Enable/Disable Triggers at a Session or SQL level

I need update a significant number of rows on a very large table that has triggers. If I run disable triggers that is affect all sessions and means I need to take the table offline, which really means I need to take the system down SQL similar to ...
28 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Give ISAM/tabid when syspurge() fails

We had a purge that was failing for a protracted period and it took a lot of trapping and tracing to figure out why, since the full error details were not being reported. In the interim, performance degraded and we risked running out of space.
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Multi-Vector Functionality

Multi-Vector Database functionality (like Milvus). May be an additional functionality like time-series or as datablade like geospatial and text-search.
6 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

In 4GL, add support for more modern Data and Object Types

In 4GL, add support for multiple Industry standard data and Object types: String HashMap (and/or Dictionary) and HashList Data Frame (as in Python) External Record - portable, custom written records that can be shared globally or between function ...
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted