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Netezza Performance Server

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 ...
about 1 year ago in Netezza Performance Server 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
9 months ago in Netezza Performance Server Submitted

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...
about 1 year ago in Netezza Performance Server Submitted

Limit password characters

Our security guidelines for compatibility with multiple different systems state that passwords should include only English characters. (plus special and numerical ones of course) But there is no way to enforce such a limit on the Netezza database ...
over 1 year ago in Netezza Performance Server Submitted

User lock for a few hours after failed log on attempts

For security reasons after multiple failed log in attempts a users account should be blocked for a limited time. Right now the system only allows for permanent lock of account and that is problematic as each unlock needs to be done manually.
over 1 year ago in Netezza Performance Server Submitted

Add additional security for NZ SaaS

We would like to see Netezza SaaS allow a CIDR block to allow only legitimate IP addresses which would limit others coming from the Public Connection to gain access.
about 2 years ago in Netezza Performance Server Submitted

Supporting access to backup log files on nzsaas from nzcli

It is useful to monitor the backup progress, investigate delays in backup durations and any potential failures etc. This way, administrators of the Netezza environment in Sicoob will continue to be able to try to solve these problems, among others...
26 days ago in Netezza Performance Server Submitted

Improve restore logs for long deletes

When a huge delete is part of a restore the system can take multiple hours on this step but the logs show that deletion is already done Example: 2026-02-09 12:20:52.189783 CET (3649905) Info: Applying deleted rows2026-02-09 12:20:52.189859 CET (36...
3 months ago in Netezza Performance Server Submitted

Handling multiple locations of backups

Current limit allows for only 32 paths to be provided for running a restore. That is a problem if full backups and all the differential ones are run in multiple streams and in different paths. For example you have a full backup in 16 streams and t...
5 months ago in Netezza Performance Server 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 ...
6 months ago in Netezza Performance Server Submitted