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Foreign keys to use compound indexes

In the below the foreign key does not use the compound index. Another index is created with adds overhead. create table p1 (t char(4) not null); create unique index px1 on p1(t); alter table p1 add constraint primary key (t) constraint p1_pk; ...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Foreign keys to be able to use compound indexes.

With the following the existing compound index is not used for the foreign key and another index is required. This adds overhead with additional maintenance. create table p1 (t char(4) not null); create unique index px1 on p1(t); alter table p1 ...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

MGMTCLASS is not adopted by LISTDEF

MGMTCLASS is not adopted by LISTDEF USE CASE: //SYSIN DD * TEMPLATE COPYTEM1 DSN('DBQ1F.&DB..&SN..N&DSNUM..&UQ.') MGMTCLAS FCRET10
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

this request is to hide Link “Select a delivery method” user-dependent (Cognos-Role-Dependent)

While a report is running a pop-up window is provided to the user. In this window a link “Select a delivery method” is shown, which should not be usable to all users.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

byte and text partitioning

Ability to partition byte and text data stored in blobspace. Eg. create table table1 (,,, colx byte in (blobspc1, blobspc2) ) ... This allows the byte/text data to be partitioned across multiple blobspace so that the blobspace size will not be ske...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Specify how many records to parse to determine storage type with an Excel file

Currently, Modeler reads the first 50 rows of an Excel file to determine storage. I have seen many customers wish that they could determine the amount of rows to read in - as sometimes they have missing values for the first 100 records, and the st...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0

Add a unique return code to the oninit command if it time out when using the -w switch

Add a unique return code to the oninit command if it time out when using the -w switch
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Adding option to Search for members to remove them, this feature is currently only available when users are to be added

In Cognos administration, under the security groups, there is no option to search for members to remove them. You can only search once you have select the add option. In groups with 100+ users, it is extremely difficult to find individuals to remo...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Backup Db2 to on premisses S3 API devices (ie. EMC ECS)

Backup Db2 databases to low cost object storage devices such as EMC ECS using the S3 API. The current implementation of the S3 interface only works for a small list of known S3-style endpoints. (ie....s3.amazonaws.com, softlayer.net). This would a...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Provide Filter Selection available in FLV within an Activity View listing

Ability to specify and apply a filter within an Activity View listing. Scrolling thru numerous objects in a list within Activity View is not user-friendly. A filtering capability such as exists today in the OP 7 product would be very useful.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Not under consideration