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Enable auto zoom to work even with the small custom regions in Reports in CA

Description of the issue: when you are using a custom map in a map visualisation in a Report that contains only small regions (e.g. like custom defined regions in a city), the auto zoom in the map visualisation doesn’t work, i.e. you see at the be...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic history configuration

To switch current history configurations one has to restart NPS system which takes a large amount of time on big systems.
almost 4 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 1 Future consideration

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

Information Service Director Maintenance mode

I have multiple Information Server engine tiers. I have enabled load balancing from the ISD console to take advantage of the engines. I need a way to gracefully stop one engine for maintenance, such that the in-flight transaction is processed, and...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Simplify Steps to Schedule a Report; Improve Error Handling Notices, and Prompt User if they overlooked a required value

Simplify Steps to Schedule a Report; Improve Error Handling Notices, and Prompt User if they overlooked a required value
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to copy drill through definition

In current functionality of drill through definition, author needs to repeat the drill through definitions to all the required elements even if the target report and parameters are exactly the same. Authoring interface should provide an option to ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use of IDAA Loader with REORG Utility w/ Purge LOG(NO)

Currently after a Db2 table REORG/Purge job that is using LOG(NO) I have to have a secondary jobstep to then reload the accelerator shadow table(s). What I'm thinking is that if the IDAA Loader can load the accelerator shadow table(s) in parallel ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 1 Not under consideration