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Defragment for a dbspace

Add at the 'DEFRAGMENT' SQL Api , the option to defragment an entire dbspace. We have set in our environment tables and partitions with historical data, so, they are tables or partitions who have any changes (include/excluded data). Most of th...
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Start Dynamic Cubes via an Event or Job maintenance after Cognos services have started

Customer has asked: ""By default dynamic cubes are started when the Query Service is started. This could cause a problem when there are several dynamic cubes started at the same time. Virtual cubes could be started under this default configuration...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

optimize the interval fragment

when using interval fragment with date or datetime column, the latest fragment is in the last one, so the performance of the Insert will become slow. if Informix can keep the latest fragment as the first fragment, it will improve the performance o...
about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Automatically calculate data type

System: Cognos Analytics ReportingActor: User wanting to develop a report or explore data Cognos Analytics Reporting is used to explore data and produce reports, both of which lead to making decisions. Description: When performing a calculation us...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

It should first check if the schedule is not done and then trigger the job as per schedule to avoid one last trigger and job run timestamp modification.

The MDE job was scheduled to run every week on Sunday till 06/04 but the job definition modification time & modified by the user got changed automatically on 06/09. It should first check if the schedule is not done and then trigger the job as ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Automátic column-level encryption at rest

In Europe we have strong laws (GDPR) protecting personal data. Nobody, even programers or DBA can access personal data if not from an audited program who grants individual access to each user able to see this information. As application examples, ...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

PAW User and Group Export

Administration user export should contain those elements cloumns what we need for import as well. The first name and last name aren't in the export, but it's in the paw system. When we would like to change the user or delete, we need to fill it ma...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhance GSLA to enable in-queue preemption

The Guaranteed SLA system allows sharing of Resources defined by ServiceClasses. We would like to use that to allow two or more groups to pool and share compute slots, wherein they typically unused slots would be available to all of the groups. Th...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Support Secure Impersonation for DataStage Big Integrate JDBC Hive connection

We are using the JAAS configuration file (JDBCDriverLogin.conf) to implement the Kerberos authentication mechanism. In our original beta testing with PX on Hadoop , we found that DataStage assumed that the Hive SPN and cache would be used for auth...
almost 9 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Recipient name match score needs to be exposed.

With FTM 3.2.9.1 , from logs , I see that, EWS provides Recipient name match score in ValidateRecipientResponse . Example : <ns4:first-name-match-score>49</ns4:first-name-match-score><ns4:last-name-match-score>15</ns4:last-nam...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Not under consideration