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IDAA Admin Services: Unable to administer IDAA due to client application name db2jcc_application

At our firm we block any transaction that tries to connect with a non compliant application name: example: db2jcc_applicationWe use dsn_profile_tables for this. Part of the IDAA Admin services also runs with db2jcc_application therefor we are unab...
23 days ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Improve throughput of InSync - IBM Integrated Synchronization

Evaluation of the feasibility of data replication from a Datasharing to an IDAA be supported by multiple Log Reader Tasks (LRTs) / Log Data Processors. In order to achieve this, we understand that a specific LRT would be responsible for capturing ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Future consideration

IDAA V8: Preserve existing data when re-enabling replication for an IDAA table

Currently, when replication is enabled for an IDAA table, the table is automatically marked for initial Load, and all previously loaded data is discarded. This requires a complete reload, even if the data already exists in the accelerator. We prop...
about 2 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Under review

Replication from Db2 to IDAA in a mixed scenario with Integrated Synchronization and IBM Loader

Accelerated tables can be replicated using Integrated Synchronization when there are no Db2 utilities unsupported by Integrated Synchronization. This approach is particularly valuable for accelerated tables that are updated exclusively through SQL...
14 days ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Submitted

IDAA V8: Better progress visibility in Admin UI during the IDAA upgrade

When an upgrade is triggered from the Management Node using the Web Admin UI, it is currently difficult to understand what is happening in the background. The available logs provide only limited information and do not clearly reflect the progress ...
2 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Query History

NationWide would like to see more columns reported by SYSMONITOR_QUERY_HISTORY of V8. The useful columns would be: SQLCODE, SQLSTATE, Error Description, CORR ID, fetch count, resultset bytes.
7 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Automatic IDAA log collecting for auditing purpose

Db2 Analytics Accelerator currently does not support automatic collecting logs for purpose of auditing.We are asked by auditors to provide logs containing administrator activities i.e. who logged on into console/Admin UI and what was doing there.F...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 4 Future consideration

Add "correlation id" and "auth id" to SYSMONITOR_LOAD_HISTORY

For LOAD_HISTORY AoT, Nationwide wants to associate the output with the z/OS load jobs or RACF ids. Can IBM add columns like "correlation id" and "auth id" to the AoT table?
7 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Db2 for z/OS – InSync: make the LogReaderTask commit interval configurable

In replication scenarios with Integrated Synchronization (InSync) (Db2 Analytics Accelerator / Data Gate), LogReaderTask needs to access compression dictionaries to decompress log records. In contention situations, this can result in decompression...
8 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

A drop column should put an object in impaired status on IDAA

After a DROP COLUMN operation against a Db2 for z/OS table which is defined as an accelerator shadow table, and a subsequent online REORG to materialize the change, the table is not reported as "unimpaired" but a subsequent load operation fails wi...
5 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Planned for future release