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Product improvement request for Netezza SaaS

SQLEXT to be renamed to SQLEXTDB to be aligned with Netezza Performance Server Custom function ISDATE to be delivered with SQLEXTDB as default Set SEARCH_PATH for SQLEXTDB = SQLEXTDB,SPSS,INZA
4 months ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

Support for software for CD/CI for object structure

Currently Netezza isn't supported aby any software for CD/CI for object structure. An example is Liquibase but it doesn't matter much which software IBM would go for as long as there would be options. https://www.liquibase.com/supported-databases ...
about 1 month ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

Views lineage

Currently there is no easy was to find all the views that reference a table. There is data in _t_rewrite table but that is hard to parse in SQL. What is needed is a system table that would have a row for every table or view referenced by a view. T...
about 1 month ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

Db2 LUW SQL Syntax Check

It would be good if Db2 LUW had a SQL, SQL/PL syntax check engine. You can check queries for correct syntax by using the explain facility, but this doesn't work with DDL statements, functions and stored procedures. An SQL syntax check engine would...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

Netezza Replication Services: run BAR process such that each step can be controlled

Customer wants to transfer logical dependent databases (dbgroup) in a controlled manner. Under some cirucumstances it could happen, that some of them were updated wheras others are still transfered or applied. This leads to a huge confusion which ...
9 months ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

DB2 Community Edition needs to support Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS

I receive errors when running the db2prereqcheck ERROR : Requirement not matched. See cat -n of output log file in Additional details ... specific errors: 46 ERROR : Requirement not matched. 114 ERROR : Requirement not matched. 182 ERROR : Require...
4 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Submitted

Conversion DECIMAL do CHAR

We are in the process of migrating data from Db2 z/OS to Db2 LUW. In our many programs we convert DECIMAL data into CHAR, e.g. to display it on the reports in a readable format. Unfortunatelly Db2 LUW formats data diffrently than Db2 z/OS. Let us ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Submitted

Efficient unloading from external tables to regular tables

As the focus has been shifting towards ELT and not ETL we would like to use the parquet ingest method on the NPSaaS. From the source to parquet, which is ingested through to external tables. All these features work good for now! However, now we ha...
10 months ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

DB2 LUW: Add GnuCOBOL to supported compilers under Linux and Windows

Users of DB2 LUW regularly need to run their COBOL on LUW as well. DB2 LUW offers thje necessary precompiler for EXEC SQL to provide that. Those users previously had to use Micro Focus (now called Rocket COBOL), but have a working alternative in G...
7 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Under review

When setting 'DB2_COMPATIBILITY_VECTOR=ORA' in non-ora DB, the resulting string length is different.

when it's going to setup "db2set DB2_COMPATIBILITY_VECTOR=ORA"~ $ db2set DB2_COMPATIBILITY_VECTOR=ORA$ db2stop force03/27/2023 18:05:52 0 0 SQL1064N DB2STOP processing was successful.SQL1064N DB2STOP processing was successful.$ db2start03/27/2023 ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 4 Not under consideration