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UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH with PDQ should favour use of indices for sort when more than one column is specified

Currently (in my testing) any UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH statement with PDQ specifying more than one column will not use indices for sort and will instead scan the table, write to temporary files and sort. This is true even when all columns spe...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Sort data calculations should not be used to determine number of passes for UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH statements where an index is used, fix misleading explain output

UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH can be used with an explain option. The explain file always shows a sort data calculation which then determines the number of table scans (passes) the database engine will undertake. These are calculated before any de...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Do not allocate MGM memory to UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH with PDQ if index is used for sort

If an UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH statement with PDQ is run, Informix will allocate memory for sorts from the memory grant manager (MGM). This happens regardless of whether there is any sorting to do. If a single indexed column is specified in t...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Avoid UPDATE STATISTICS [LOW] sampling failures due to data skew

If onconfig parameter USTLOW_SAMPLE is set, sampling will be used for all UPDATE STATISTICS LOW commands. On some tables this will always or nearly always fail due to data skew, printing a message like: Warning: update statistics low using samplin...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Clear all selected conditions at once

In Cognos Analytics 11 at the moment, there is the way to clear the selected conditions one by one. We want you to add a function to cancel all conditions at once by the filter icon displayed in the upper right of the visualization.In Cognos Analy...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Allow Informix to kill sessions not only limited by session-id

Informix should be able to kill sessions not only limited by session-id:For example: If a admin should kill sessions from a specific user or host a script is needed. So it would be helpfull if onmode -z would accept following syntax for example:$ ...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Include "Always create extended data items" option in CA11

In Cognos 10.2.2 - When authoring report based on TM1/Planning Analytics Cube – we have the "Extended Data Item" option disabled in the Report Studio options (Tools menu) so our users are able to edit data item items which you drag into new report...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Saving new default "run as" parameters for reports

Looking for ability to save default "run as" parameters for reports including run in background, report format (Excel, PDF, etc.), and advanced settings so that users do not have to change these settings every time they run a report.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Limit batch connections via DB2 profile tables

We had a few instances where an errant user submitted multiple batch jobs against a DB2 subsystem and caused DB2 to reach IDBACK limit. This affected other users trying to submit batch jobs for an extended period of time. Making use of DB2 profile...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Multiple queues request for job - consider taking in account queue limitations and lsf.resources for better job dispatching.

Today, when we submit a job with multiple queues (bsub "high risk") The job will be dispatched to a relevant queue by examine parameters such as queue status(open/closed), queue hosts, time-limit. In a situation, where a queue "high" have a ujob_l...
7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

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