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Request IDAA V7 Container code via Shop Z and SMP

Today, V7 container code for both IIAS and Z are downloaded from Fix Central. It is a different download and website than normal Stored Procedure and other Db2 related maintenance PTFs. Some customers have download issues such as download runs for...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow the Schema Generator to be able to use Complex Data Types for Parquet and Avro

The schema generator currently is only able to generate basic schema. For example a map with mixed data types is considered complex and will cause an error: { "answers":{ "field1": "somestring", "field2": 123 } } SCHEMA_GEN_0007 - Map '/answer...
11 months ago in StreamSets 0

Support for IBM Storage Scale Container Native as storage class for StreamSets cartridge install in CP4D

A customer with CP4D has this as their storage class and has expressed interest in using StreamSets within this platform
6 months ago in StreamSets 1

Salesforce Lookup Processor - Batching & ID field enhancement

Johnson & Johnson would like the ability to perform lookups via the Salesforce Lookup Processor by utilizing a field other than the Salesforce ID field. They have managed to perform this via SOQL, however this performs a query for each ID. The...
6 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Snowflake Bulk not able to read from read-only database due to the temporary file format.

When Snowflake Bulk stage tries to read from a read-only database, it fails with the message: "Could not create a temporary file format (SNOWFLAKE_47)" due to the lack of permissions to create the file format object in the source database. This is...
about 1 year ago in StreamSets 1 Under review

Lack of XML support in IDAA

Tables with XML are supported, but the XML columns themselves are not supported by IDAA
over 12 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Future 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...
over 11 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Option 12 panel (Change Capture Agent IP address) needs to allow for unplanned change of IP addresses

The current process for clients utilizing the Option 12 panel (Change Capture Agent IP address and TCP port for z/OS) requires that Replication be stopped in a controlled manner prior to updating the IP addresses. This process does not allow for d...
about 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 3 Future consideration

support LOB in IBM DB2 Analytics Analyzer for z/OS - IDAA

Rabobank had used his clobs in a varchar. When the inline CLob became available they converted their varchar to inline LOB. Now with the IDAA available they should move back to the varchar. Instead of IDAA supporting the LOBs.They want the IDAA su...
over 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

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...
over 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration