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Use the engines of the lakehouse in Git integrated projects

We have an instance of watsonx.data in CP4D, installed on Openshift in Azure Cloud. Within watsonx.data we have buckets representing azure containers within a Azure Blob storage. In projects that are integrated with Git, when we need to configure ...

IDAA loader SMF type 115 subtype 216 class 5

We are looking at using the Db2 Analytics Accelerator for our core SMF data . MQ 9.4 has a capability where it collects queue level statistics in SMF115 subtype 216 data. The data collected is the equivalent data of issuing a queue status command....
3 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 2 Under review

DB2 version upgrade readiness check to be introduced in DB2 for z/OS agent

This request was discussed in Large Systems Update & Db2 Update - Finland on 18/9/2025 to help sysprogs and DBA's with version upgrade readiness check . The agent should help the technicians in a way that target object list along with solution...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Agent / Techzone | Private Beta 0 Submitted

Support new connection type for watsonx.data and support for Spark engines in it

Documentation: https://ibm-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/p/shrinivas_kulkarni_in/EcUbCoYhyVRJmWrwscDVUx8B0jxHp5cqCLtr4E7xuCGDMw?e=tbj8w8 Future State Support for new connection type to point to a specific Spark Engine of watsonx.data, either on SaaS or so...

use IDAA Loader to create a backup of a very large un-partitioned AOT, alternately allow AOTs to be partitioned

We have a very large table of data which we would like to take off of DB2. We have created an AOT and loaded it from DB2, but we have not been able to create a backup of the AOT. Without a backup we can not remove the table from DB2. This was repo...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Improve AOT backup performance

We're using IDAA loader V 2.1 to run backups for very huge AOTs. When IDAA loader takes a backup from an IDAA AOT it uses SQL multirow fetch to transfer the data from IDAA into a z/OS sequential file. This may work fine for small AOTs. But in our ...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Request for Product Enhancement – Low Latency Data Processing Capabilities in watsonx.data

The customer is currently using watsonx.data to support a high-partition, high-ingestion analytics platform. While the system is now stable after several patches and fixes, they are looking ahead to future enhancements that can meet their true low...

Issue different return code when no rows loaded

We have an IDAA loader job that disables the table prior to the load to IDAA. Upon successful load of # rows, Loader will end with RC = 0 and enable the table for acceleration again. If the same process is run multiple times and results in "no row...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Future consideration

add message at EOJ with jobs/load stats

Currently in loader job output the stats of the job /table / load times are displayed. I would like for them to be in a message that we can use to automate stats on loads. example: “HLxxxxI Job J9I75275 Full table, number of rows: 610254877, amoun...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Future consideration

HLOMAINT utility enhancement request

Today, HLOMAINT utility is not designed to find out what utilities are stuck or dead. To clean up those loader utilities, we run a SELECT * against HLOTB.HLOUSTAT table, review each utility, and run the HLOMAINT job to terminate the utilities one ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 2 Not under consideration