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BigSQL

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Ability to stop runaway BigSQL query without access to OpenShift pods

Using Cloud Pak for Data as a service, one should be able to stop a runaway BigSQL query without access to OpenShift pods. Per IBM recommendation, we are using BigSQL to access parquet files stored in Cloud Object Storage. This is supported in Clo...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 2 Future consideration

Provide LOBS support for columns over 32kb

There is currently no LOBS support for columns over 32kb in BigSQL Hadoop tables. For column which size is over 32KB, there's a limitation on the DDL when creating the table (maximum size is 32672), hence whole data/string couldn't be retrieved wh...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Future consideration

BigSQL installation using nonroot user needs /bin/bash permissions

For BigSQL v4.2 installation using a non root user such as ambariUser (for example), sudo /bin/bash is needed for this user. Clients is claiming s a security risk for them. They are requesting to remove this permission on installation process or a...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Planned for future release

Limit the 'list of tables' to display when using Ranger authorization

We need to limit the list of tables to display to non authorized users when Ranger policy are enabled. We followed the steps described in this article, but it doasn't work when using Ranger to manage users authorizations: https://www.ibm.com/suppo...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Not under consideration

Handle DECIMAL values with a precision greater than 31

Sprint's Hadoop/Hive environment supports DECIMAL values with precision > 31. To enable their users to use these columns in BigSQL, BigSQL needs to support this. (Salesforce case TS002907694)
over 4 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Not under consideration

Echo predicate functinality for sub queries

Issue Statement: Echo predicate is not working properly to eliminate partition and query is taking longer time to complete Filter With Hard Coded date: Query completes in 2 secs , since it is directly hitting the July 31st partition alone SELECT *...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Not under consideration

BigSql Strengthening on node failure

BigSql is built upon db2 database but it thus miss a major architecture philosophy of Hadoop:" handle failure "If you launch a query and one of the designated worker node fails (hardware failure) then the request fails instead of being restarted o...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Not under consideration

Server Tracking Tool

Mirat | Suits Your IT Asset Discovery Needs Overview For the last several years, companies are moving towards IT diversified environment which includes cloud, virtual, and mobile devices. The companies decided to make a common place for connecting...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Future consideration

Need semi-join capability in BigSQL

In migrating from Hive QL to BigSQL, Sprint has found that their user community used the Hive semi-join function. To minimize the rewriting required, BigSQL support of semi-join is requested.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Not under consideration

Create a separate role for federation.

I tried the suggestions made by John yesterday and it seems to be working so here are two ways to enable user to use federation in self-service mode. 1. Grant user a sysadmin privileges which comes with elevated privileges. User can even make chan...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Not under consideration