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Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS

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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...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Track changes to the JSON file that is uploaded to the IDAA

We are required to document and track all changes to key baseline parameters, all maintenance levels for all software products in our shop, and to identify when parameters change (drift) from the baseline values. The capture, discovery, and report...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

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 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve performance of queries with correlated subqueries in IDAA v7 - another

This request for enhancement is related to queries with correlated sub-queries that IDAAs V7 don't have capacity to solve. Accordingly with IBM support it will be necessary that: remove correlated predicates that do not have reference of columns/e...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 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...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 3 Future consideration

To view file system usage on IDAA on Z in the Admin GUI

Whenever we get an alert that file system is full we have to raise a case with IBM and have to join a webex and open a putty session and ask IBM to check the current usage and most of the times it automatically gets cleared . Wanted to see if the ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Under review

Lack of XML support in IDAA

Tables with XML are supported, but the XML columns themselves are not supported by IDAA
over 11 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

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 9 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 9 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 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...
over 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration