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    Spark job to be able to access, read and write on external database without the credentials being exposed anywhere (instance, logs, job metadata, etc…)

    We want to create a job on a Spark instance of the Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark that runs a Spark application reading from and writing to an Exasol database. To enable database access, we need to pass our user credentials into the job....
    about 1 month ago in Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

    Automatic data validation by using asnclp create qsub with different data type column mapping

    Related to the case TS020335936 Scenario: Consider the following qsub creation: mapping VARCHAR(26) to TIMESTAMP(6) TRGCOLS EXCLUDE (RECORD_TIME, MES_RECORD_TIME, SITE_CD, D_KEY, CHANGE_TYPE, CHANGE_TIME) EXPRESSION ( "'MES2'" TARGET SITE_CD, "cur...
    about 2 months ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Replication for Availability (LUW, Db2 Warehouse) 0 Submitted

    Ability to paste '-' characters as 0.

    0 values formatted as a '-' in Excel cannot be pasted into Planning Analytics. This causes a spreading error. Users often format 0 values as a '-'. It would be helpful if Planning Analytics could interpret '-' as a 0 on paste.
    27 days ago in Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

    Performance improvement for expression

    Add one column with STATIC expression on target, but got long processing time (delay) on apply side. Would like to know the reason why. New Expression:Expression: ‘MES1’ -> site_cd Existing expression looks like as:CASE WHEN :SYS_CD is NULL the...
    5 months ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Replication for Availability (LUW, Db2 Warehouse) 4 Under review

    Alter QSUB add *EXPRESSION* without DROP/RECREATE

    As we know, user can alter QSUB and add current_timestamp / timestamp column without drop/recreate QSUB. But it is NOT possible to add an *EXPRESSION* without drop/recreate QSUB. With this feature, it's much more convenient without annoy drop/recr...
    about 1 year ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Replication for Availability (LUW, Db2 Warehouse) 0 Needs more information

    Add a Trace Security in order to understand how a right is evaluated by the engine

    As for business rules, PAL/TM1, security could be a mix of data and/or rules on the system security objects. For business rules, we can use the "trace calculations" which is really a great feature. For security, we can only use... our brain so a "...
    over 2 years ago in Analytics Engine 3 Not under consideration

    MDE Job is failed with error "Deployment not found with given id"

    We found the issue related to the Spark/MDE blocker issue. MDE job triggered a spark-runtime deployment first The spark-runtime deployment then triggered corresponding spark-master/worker pods If the 1st spark-master/worker pod does not come up wi...
    over 1 year ago in Analytics Engine 0 Under review

    Ability to resize the columns across the job page, as well as any other columns in order to see text that is too long

    Column Resizing so that we can see the full line of text and not have it cut off if the text is too long. The ability to resize would help for copying and pasting pieces of the string or the entire string itself.
    10 months ago in Analytics Engine 1 Submitted

    To resolve the backup failure issue caused by identical hostnames across IIAS appliances running in Docker containers.

    Assigning unique hostnames to each IIAS appliance (or container) is essential because backup tools like EMC NetWorker rely on hostnames to identify and manage client systems. When multiple appliances use the same hostname, EMC NetWorker cannot dif...
    5 months ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Replication for Availability (LUW, Db2 Warehouse) 0 Under review

    Allow Db2 columnar table replication to watsonx.data

    Truist has obtained 3M+ of Data Replication entitlements in Q1 of 2025 to replicate data from Exadata and Db2 WH to Snowflake. Db2 WH table are all in columnar format and Truist would like for the tables to stay the same way. Our current proposed ...
    6 months ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Replication for Availability (LUW, Db2 Warehouse) 0 Submitted

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