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Disable default WITH GRANT OPTION privileges on user-created objects

Currenty on Db2 LUW / Datawarehouse version 12.1 if an end user has CREATEIN privileges on a schema by a role (Role Based Access Control) then the user gets 7 implicit privileges on that newly created object, WITH GRANT OPTION. The end user can no...
13 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 1 Under review

System temporality slowness on Db2wh

System temporal tables are part of the type two of slow changing dimensions, this assists in tracking changes that happens on the data by preserving historical accuracy. These tables have two tables, The BASE table and the HISTORY table. When reco...
5 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 0 Submitted

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

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 warehouse on RHEL 8

Currently Db2 warehouse isn't supported on RHEL 8. Our enterprise is upgrading all RHEL servers to version 8 and Db2wh is not compatible. So need IBM's help to provide us with DB2wh build that supports RHEL 8
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 0 Planned for future release

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

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 Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 1 Submitted

Db2 Warehouse in CP4D - NFS v4 support

We are using NFS for Db2 warehouse backups of a Database of 6TB. But doing it with mount nfs v3, no lock option, takes about 3x time that doing it with nfs v4. Doing the backups with nfs v4 works fine in our environment, but in documentation, it s...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 0 Submitted