This is not really a question, but rather a placeholder for my notes. If you want to globally disable the association of LISTS OF VALUES for a universe, there is not a built-in function to allow you to do this. I’m sure you can also do this via VBA, but you may not have access to the developer kit.
WARNING: Requires direct modification of the Repository tables. There are conflicting assumptions about what violates the support contract, and direct manipulation is one of those. Modification (adding, removing columns, addition of tables, inserting or deleting rows) are typically not allowed as they may violate integrity between tables. Updating values to other valid values should not really be constituted as modifications, as you could do this via the tool, albeit much slower.
With that said… You can update a Single Universe, turning off the LIST OF VALUES by running the following SQL:
UPDATE UNV_OBJCONTENT
set OBJ_LIST_VALUES =
substr(OBJ_LIST_VALUES,1, instr(OBJ_LIST_VALUES,',')) || 'N' ||
substr(OBJ_LIST_VALUES, instr(OBJ_LIST_VALUES,',',1,2))
where UNIVERSE_ID = 39
Don’t forget to substitute the appropriate UNIVERSE_ID from the UNV_UNIVERSE table.
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