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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

Option to configure PAW logging in Local timezone.

At this point, there is no way to change the logging timezone in PAW from GMT to local, would like to have feature to change PAW logging from GMT to local timezone.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add onconfig parameter to not allow slow alters.

Add an onconfig parameter so that slow alters are not allowed by default. This is to prevent outages for customers from long transaction rollbacks.
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

DB2 STANDBY REPLAY DELAY caused by Offline reorg

IBM case: TS008415413 When an OFFLINE REORG is submitted on Primary, the REPLAY on STANDBY (both Principal and Auxiliary) applies the transactional logs till the BUILD phase. When the reorg moves to recreate or updates the INDEXES, the REPLAYS sto...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Future consideration

Add Browse Functionality for JavaScript Path for Page / CustomControl Modules

Currently there is a simple text box for indicating the path to the JavaScript files to be used for CustomControl and Page Modules. It would be great to have a browse interface similar to the one used when locating image files. This helps assure d...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

bsub should accept a cpu_efficiency parameter to allow cpu over-commiting in the pool

It's rare for a job to achieve close to 100% cpu efficiency. Often, jobs have a peak cpu requirement during its execution lifetime but use less cpus in average. If bsub could be told that a job is expected to run with a given cpu efficiency, LSF c...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Simulation & Prediction 2 Not under consideration

Questionnaire and associated parameters

We need to have functionality to associate a ‘Questionnaire’ with a Risk, Control or other object and leverage the results from the ‘questionnaire’ functionality directly into the parameters of these objects (i.e. we are ‘bypassing’ this limitatio...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 4 Future consideration

Delegation of workflow tasks

We need to have functionality to delegate workflow tasks to other users and/or invite other users to contribute to specific workflow tasks (e.g. for self-assessment, issue management and other workflow activities)
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration