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Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS

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DSNX messages for IDAA need to be formated better for Auomation

When the IDAA pushes messages to the mainframe, the automation tool has a difficult time in parsing the messages. I even have a difficult time reading the messages as they can be split across multiple occurrences of DSNX881I messages with words br...
over 7 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Ability to add columns to DB2 z/OS tables without impacting IDAA or incremental update

Currently, adding a column to a DB2 z/OS table that is using IDAA with incremental update involves: 1) Adding the column in DB2 z/OS2) Stopping replication for all IDAA tables3) Dropping the affected table from IDAA4) Adding the affected table bac...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Improve performance of queries with correlated subqueries in IDAA v7

Queries with correlated sub-queries where index access is involved will generally run faster on Db2z then on IDAA v7. Since IDAA v7 supports correlated subqueries, these queries are generally offloaded to IDAA, although they may run significantly ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Report Insync latency on table level

As of today, Insync latency is reported via "Q8STCRL: The current replication latency for this DB2 system". This provides an overall latency but does not help which table is the most contributer to the latency. If customers monitor a high latency ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

TIMESTAMP with TIMEZONE support for IDAA

Since timestamps with timezone specification is not supported into the current last version of IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator for zOS 7.1, even if the same functionality is already implemented into DB2 for zOS, SIA asks it will be implemented the s...
about 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to join EBCDIC and UNICODE tables in IDAA

We have a lot of EBCDIC and UNICODE tables in production, and in many cases those tables would have to be joined to execute our operational analytic workloads on IDAA. Altering the objects to make it work is an option since many of those tables ar...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Externalize IDAA internal configuration / tuning parameters visible by customer

Wells Fargo’s Audit Department requires monitoring of configuration parameters. At least monthly (in Database Operation case its daily), Enterprise Compute Services (ECS) Drift Identification Automation compares deployed configuration data to the ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Improvements on the IDAA Studio - report to identify the tables are not used by the IDAA according to a period informed

report to identify the tables are not used by the IDAA according to a period informed
almost 11 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Simple way to check consistency between DB2 and IDAA

When implementing data replication we found a number of tables showing different number of rows in DB2 and on IDAA (2 IDAAs installed with replication). To verify this we did as follows:- Disable table for acceleration in IDAA1- Run SPUFI with SEL...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Monitor IDAA for z/OS physical filesystem in size in real time

There are different UIs such as Data Studio, DSM and and Admin UI and they provide different metrics for storage usage in IDAA on Z. Such as; - Table size in data studio determined at the table level, - Used Space in data studio which comes from U...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration