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Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS

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messages on virtual console indicating shutdown in progress

Having an indication that the IDAA is shutting down and then "shutdown completed" would aid operations personnel figure out status of the IDAA during shutdown or system relocation activities triggered by automation (GDPS) etc.
over 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 3 Delivered

IDAA Management Console Security Customization Options

Provide greater flexibility for secure separation of duties within IDAA. Currently there is 1 ID with 1 Password which translated into 1 key to every door within IDAA. This scenario simply does not comply with Audit especially for a financial inst...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Delivered

Provide Federation support in IDAA V7

Federation is currently supported in IDAA V5, we were an early adopter and are actively using. For that reason we will not move forward with V7 until it can provide the same functionality, so it's probably equally urgent for IBM if you want income...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Delivered

The ability to have latency affect IDAA routing decisions

The ability to take into account latency for IDAA incremental update tables should be taken into account when the DB2 z/OS optimizer determines whether or not to route a query to IDAA. The ability should also be provided to turn this heuristic on/...
over 11 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

IDAA Sailfish - Require external ip addresses for the head node and the VIP only

Today public IP addresses for all nodes are required. In our case, 20 additional IP addresses were necessary for the machine IDAA Sailfish (Model 4002-020)
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

IDAA Sailfish - WLM between v5/v7

There is no workload balancing between IDAA v5 and v7
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Delivered

stop offloading queries to IDAA when incremental update is no longer updating a table

need to accelerate OLTP DBs for IDAA. As we keep telling that we can now merge both OLTP-Operational queries together on Z., this is something that is already in our way to resolve. First thing they came up with was the fact that they need a way t...
about 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

Log message in case of threshold reached Appliance Data Pool

At one time our Appliance Data Pool was 78% used. Several users faced -904 message without any extra information. They got this message when running Queries with a lot of output (multiple Gb´s).....we saw that the reason was in the area of the spi...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 2 Delivered

Status changes for IDAA should be reflected in system log

Status changes for IDAA should be reflected in system log with a message. So we can be alert to take necessary actions. It should not be DSNX881I they need to be unique since detection is critical for this messages.
over 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

Version tolerance on the IDAA stored procedures & NPS Code

We find the lack of version tolerance on the IDAA stored procedures (especially on SYSPROC.ACCEL_UPDATE_SOFTWARE) and as well as on the NPS code extremely difficult during migration. We would like to see that fixed as soon as possible. 1) We shoul...
over 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered