Re: Whatcha' wanta have?????

"Madison Pruet" <mpruet@comcast.net> wrote in message news:<yCVUb.239099$xy6.1249571@attbi_s02>... > As a mild diversion from the IDS-DB2 conversion thread, its time for one of > my more favorite exercises. ;-) > > We are nearing the end of the coding cycle for IDS 9.5. We've got a whole > bunch of really cool stuff in place and - well - its time to get input from > you guys as to what you want to see in the 9.6 release. > > Now, I know that everyone's favorite thing is going to be "marketing", but > I'm in development. So I need to talk features and functionality. So feel > free to send them on in. > > Just an FYI - I'll be away for a while and won't be able to get email via my > comcast email address. But, I'll be following the newsgroup rather closely. > > Also, next week I'll be in some planning meeting. So getting responses back > fairly quickly would really help. > > Thanks > > M.Pruet I'd like to see - 'upsert' (update or insert) - 'smart' foreign key constraint that uses any feasible index - configurable buffer page pools to stop rubbish queries on large tables flushing all buffer pages (sybase had this feature about 8 years ago). - explicit support for temp spaces in RAM - anything which can be done to lessen checkpoint times - a job scheduler in the server (so that I can do things like say at '2004-03-15 15:00:00' execute procedure my_job() I'd like a transactional interface so that I can remove and add jobs as part of the scheduled operation, and a bulletproof implementation that provides guarantees about when jobs get run if the server goes down and is restarted Chris