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Pin up Filter in Query Table

Today we are having round about 300 Querys defined. Each user has some private working querys (by definition) starting with the name prefix "BT_". It would be great to Pin up a filter. (in comparison to the old UI the querys were splitted up on x-...
about 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Not under consideration

Limit the 'list of tables' to display when using Ranger authorization

We need to limit the list of tables to display to non authorized users when Ranger policy are enabled. We followed the steps described in this article, but it doasn't work when using Ranger to manage users authorizations: https://www.ibm.com/suppo...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Not under consideration

InsteadOF SQL

It is common in the database world (DB2 but all the others I have worked with are the same) to have a separate product installed that generates code and submits it to the database for processing. Eventually, you will encounter SQL that doesn't per...
about 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Flag high volatile tables as 'VOLATILE' and access those tables differently than normal tables by the query optimizer

A volatile table is defined as a table whose contents can vary from empty to very large at run time. In other words , statistics data is often out of date and may result in wrong access plans by the optimizer and subsequently may have lock the ent...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Alter-support for global variables

With DB2 V11 global variables were introduced, but unfortunately no alter-option to change the default. This would be especially beneficial it this enhancement would also include the system-provided global variables. With this enhancement each cus...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Correct sizing of columns to avoid systematic manual resizing

When displaying a pivot table, one need to manually resize columns, this is annoying.
over 4 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 1 Not under consideration

Automatic column generation

have an API or/and OPL command to do a Column generation on any problem.
over 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

CPLEX object create by oplrun and concert shall be equal

the CPLEX object created by an OPL model is not the same as tyhe CPLEX object created with concert technology.It creates limitation and complexity that prevent people to use OPL in many cases, such advance algorithms with call backs manual cuts......
over 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Cplex.solveFixed() for OPL Script

Is there an equivalent of Cplex.SolveFixed() for OPL Script ? I'm looking for dual costs of a MILP. So I'd like to 1) solve it to get the solution. 2) solve the corresponding LP with fixed integer variables 3) get dual costs I don't know in advanc...
over 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

'onstat -g mem' should give a complete picture of all memory usage by an Informix instance

Currently 'onstat -g mem' does not include vp cache information and some other memory structures. Similarly syspools view is missing information too.
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration