IIUG 2008 survey for new features

The IIUG has put online another new features survey for IDS. You can find it here: http://www.iiug.org/2008_survey For all the people complaining, this is a good opportunity to expose your thoughts. Besides the proposed features specified in the survey you can add your own suggestions... And there's a comment box about benchmarks :) Further ideas about this: http://informix-technology.blogspot.com/2008/10/iiug-2008-survey-again-time-to-speak-up.html Regards. -- Fernando Nunes Portugal http://informix-technology.blogspot.com My email works... but I don't check it frequently...

Fernando Nunes wrote: > The IIUG has put online another new features survey for IDS. > You can find it here: http://www.iiug.org/2008_survey > > For all the people complaining, this is a good opportunity to expose > your thoughts. Besides the proposed features specified in the survey you > can add your own suggestions... > And there's a comment box about benchmarks :) > > Further ideas about this: > http://informix-technology.blogspot.com/2008/10/iiug-2008-survey-again-time-to-speak-up.html > > > Regards. Fascinating survey. I didn't respond as that would have been unfair but I did read the questions. Again: Fascinating. While so many of you trumpet loudly the features of Informix, though you don't seem to ever name them, the survey clearly indicates a strong desire to create for the first time features that have been in other products for many generations. Here, for example, are some from the first page: Add ability for dbaccess LOAD statement to commit every N rows to avoid long transactions Add ability to automatically capture detailed information on all deadlocks Add ability to change a disabled index to enabled without requiring an index rebuild Add ability to change the user of an existing connection (i.e. connect as jsmith and change user to jdoe) Add ability to perform an online table reorg Add ability to perform in-place alter for tables with VARCHAR columns All of these have existed in Oracle for a very long time. -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)

DA Morgan said: > Fernando Nunes wrote: >> The IIUG has put online another new features survey for IDS. >> You can find it here: http://www.iiug.org/2008_survey >> >> For all the people complaining, this is a good opportunity to expose >> your thoughts. Besides the proposed features specified in the survey you >> can add your own suggestions... >> And there's a comment box about benchmarks :) >> >> Further ideas about this: >> http://informix-technology.blogspot.com/2008/10/iiug-2008-survey-again-time-to-speak-up.html >> >> >> Regards. > > Fascinating survey. I didn't respond as that would have been unfair but Of course you didn't. > I did read the questions. Again: Fascinating. > > While so many of you trumpet loudly the features of Informix, though > you don't seem to ever name them, the survey clearly indicates a strong > desire to create for the first time features that have been in other > products for many generations. Here, for example, are some from the > first page: > > Add ability for dbaccess LOAD statement to commit every N rows to avoid > long transactions All the external load utilities have this option. It's not any kind of issue for me, and it never has been in 20 (very) odd years of use. > Add ability to automatically capture detailed information on all deadlocks I've never seen a deadlock in 20-odd years. Maybe Oracle programmers are just shit? > All of these have existed in Oracle for a very long time. Discrete transactions have also existed in Oracle for a very long time. How many people have they helped? -- Bye now, Obnoxio http://obotheclown.blogspot.com/

Hello Daniel, have you tryed update statistics high in obstacle... ougrhhhh yikes what a piece of shit to figure out the syntax.. Superboer. BTW why don't you go and answer questions in the obstacle group instead of pissing on informix. We know what the state of informix is and what you think of it; you made that already very clear. On 8 okt, 07:40, DA Morgan <damor...@psoug.org> wrote: > Fernando Nunes wrote: > > The IIUG has put online another new features survey for IDS. > > You can find it here:http://www.iiug.org/2008_survey > > > For all the people complaining, this is a good opportunity to expose > > your thoughts. Besides the proposed features specified in the survey you > > can add your own suggestions... > > And there's a comment box about benchmarks :) > > > Further ideas about this: > >http://informix-technology.blogspot.com/2008/10/iiug-2008-survey-agai... > > > Regards. > > Fascinating survey. I didn't respond as that would have been unfair but > I did read the questions. Again: Fascinating. > > While so many of you trumpet loudly the features of Informix, though > you don't seem to ever name them, the survey clearly indicates a strong > desire to create for the first time features that have been in other > products for many generations. Here, for example, are some from the > first page: > > Add ability for dbaccess LOAD statement to commit every N rows to avoid > long transactions > > Add ability to automatically capture detailed information on all deadlocks > > Add ability to change a disabled index to enabled without requiring an > index rebuild > > Add ability to change the user of an existing connection (i.e. connect > as jsmith and change user to jdoe) > > Add ability to perform an online table reorg > > Add ability to perform in-place alter for tables with VARCHAR columns > > All of these have existed in Oracle for a very long time. > -- > Daniel A. Morgan > University of Washington > damor...@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)