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Manta to support dynamic calls in COBOL Scanner

Background Assume there are two COBOL files (parent.cbl and child.cbl) In parent.cbl we see below lines // variable DATESUB contains child.cbl 77 DATESUB PIC X(08) VALUE 'child '. // parent calls child using variable DATESUB CALL DATESUB USING DAT...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 3 Not under consideration

Improve Manta's PowerExchange file reader scanner's lineage by showing the source and target file system

Issue When Manta is used to scan the PowerExchange (PWX) file reader in Informatica PowerCenter, it successfully parses the PWX component. However, it does not display the actual source and target files based on the information available in the wo...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Under review

Create an Archive checker to validate L1 backups

We need a tool that validates the Level1 backups in a similar manner of the L0 backups arch-checker
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Colour consistency should be definable across all objects, not just within a single dashboard. And we should have attributes on members, not just data items.

Colour consistency is a great feature, ensuring that within a single dashboard all visualisations will show a member with the same colour. But what about if you have a suite of dashboards? What about if you have reports? A user would want the same...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Allow online index builds of functional indexes

The fact that we can't build functional indexes online effectively precludes them from use - or at least, makes it very difficult, as we can't do offline builds without an outage - which is expensive
2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Dashboard Cascade with Dates

I have a model with 3 fields - Year, Year-Month, and Date. In reporting, I can set up a set of cascading prompts that allow for selecting the Year and then the subsequent months of the selected year and after selecting a Year-Month, the subsequent...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted
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Informix should be able to change owner on tables and any other objects

If user=informix creates all database and all tables, then programmer creates table but user=informix cannot change it. Only drop it.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Increasing LO_hdr_partn size limit in every chunk in sbspace Metadata partition

We have a system with a lot of users and big amount of BLOB/CLOB data. It's critical 24x7 application. It should be created a new sbspace about 1TB - with 8 chunks x 140GB every 6 months, because the limit in LO_hdr_partn in sbspace Metadata Parti...
8 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Dasboard Export to Excel Format

Ability to export dashboards with layout to Microsoft Excel format
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 5 Planned for future release

Manta COBOL scanner should support Assembly code.

Manta COBOL scanner fails with parsing error when it encounteres assembly code. There are two ways to resolve this. 1. Refactor the assembly code to COBOL program (Manual approach) 2. Add support for assembly code in Manta COBOL scanner Option #2 ...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Not under consideration