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Netezza Performance Server

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Kerberos / SSL conflict

When Kerberos is enabled for users it blocks the usage of SSL for users that have local authentication. This is a bug that should be fixed but IBM persists this is working as designed so placing this here as an enhancement request. Enabling kerber...
almost 3 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 2 Future consideration

Data traffic encryption

When kerberos authentication is enabled there is no way to have data traffic encrypted. Despite the fact that kerberos has that functionality IBM isn't taking advantage of it. Data traffic encryption is a security standard for years so this should...
almost 3 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 1 Future consideration

easy-to-use NPS Client application like as Aginity Workbench

It would be helpful to provide customers with easy-to-use NPS Client application like as Aginity Workbench, which was withdraw. This application should have the following features: Generating DDL scripts for database objects View / edit comments f...
over 3 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Future consideration

Custom graphs in cyclops/webconsole

As NzPortal no longer supports the new platforms we are forces to switch to the cyclops web console which does not support adding custom graphs which we could do in NzPortal. Adding this functionality shouldn't be a lot of work and would provide f...
over 2 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Future consideration

NPS option to add comment when creating users and groups

it is easier for DBAs to administer users and groups, when can give a meaningful description for a group or user.
about 1 year ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

NPS Runaway query event session username like we had on PDA

Hi, We have some NPS events configured, one of them is "NPS Runaway Query" which is created from template as should be. When we got notification mail, there is a lot information about event which is ok, and in section "Additional Data" we can see ...
about 1 year ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

Regarding modification of dbos.log output when SPU hangs

We have confirmed that the following message is output to dbos.log when the DB service becomes unavailable due to SPU hang-up. *dbos.log Info: _forward_spu_util. Unable to send to dispatch: SPU_MSG_UTILIZATION msg Since this issue has a sig...
about 1 year ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

Backup Failure Alert

Having a push notification of a failure of a business critical event would be very convenient. Currently we would need to sign in to the console on the same frequency as the backup to ensure that it is completing successfully. If we received an em...
over 1 year ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

Fix code to address network bottleneck for backups

Running a backup of 70 TB currently takes up around 14 hours which is a lot. With fast backup storage backup could be completed in 2-3 hours. Problem is that despite the CPDS system having 2x25Gb network it should be able to write backups at 50Gb/...
over 1 year ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

apikey and storage’s bucket as Backup destion

"Hi Souleymane, The Netezza on Cloud (NZaaS) provides the option to backup and restore from customer public cloud storage solutions like Azure Blob Storage. However the authentication mechanism is key based and there is no option to for more secur...
over 1 year ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration