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Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS

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Add option "Clean-up capture agent catalog" to accelerator v7 like it was in v5

In V7, there is not such a feature available for now. The only option toclean up capture agent would be manual cleanup with CDC tool via supportteam, but it would only happen if the system has really become slow and there was a high amount of tabl...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Stored Procedure support for Open Transactions and Tables used by these regarding Integrated Synchronization

Once in a while we will se a large delay in Integrated Synchronization because of bad applications not doing commit or doing rollback of large transactions. Sometimes we have to do manual intervention and remove a table before we get out of the si...
8 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Under review

Increase limitation of Head file system

Hello Team, Currently we have limitation of head file system and we are sometimes having free space issues and we are manually getting the FODC dumps deleted for freeing up the space. Can we remove the limitation and increase the head file system ...
9 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Downgrade or remove Warning messages like "IBM InfoSphere Data Replication adjusted the source data image to fit into the target column "

All IDAA messages are presented in the z/OS system log as DSNX881I messages. These messages have a Message ID & Severity. Many also have an embedded CHCxxxxxx message id. However, many messages get reported under Message ID 20, and these can b...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Replication support for HPSS feature

Technical Problem Assume there is a partitioned tablespace and some parts are archived via HPSS. Therefore, there are archived and non-archived partitions. Db2 transparent archive is not the case in this scenario. There is only one table with PBR ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Changing Distributed Keys

In de new IDAA it took more than 6 days to change distributed keys, and then we cancelled the proces..it would be nice, that this proces can finish in max load time, in our case 33 hours. Why we need it , it could be in the future needed to change...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Replication Tasks (CDC) should be ZIIP offloadable

DB2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS is a product which off loads workload from z/OS. All Task used for loading data, replicating updates, managing the IDAA box is new workload and should be cost efficient according to Mainframe. This means, that ev...
over 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Row Level Access Control support

Db2 for z/OS customers are using multilevel security for business needs and regulatory reasons. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-for-zos/12?topic=granularity-creating-tables-multilevel-security If a table is defined with a AS SECURITY LABEL, this t...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow specification of Authid under which Federated Tables References are created

DBAs in our organisation gain SYSADM authority via a secondary authid (a RACF Group), and it is that authority that we expect to use when administering the IDAA. However when using internal Db2 security the Create Rference stored procedure to crea...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Need Governor on Netezza Appilance

Need a way (automated) to cancel very long running SQLon the Netezza Appliance(IDAA) that is impacting the CDC data latency running on Z/OS LPAR. Some type of governor is needed in the Netezza Appliance in order to insure that no run away SQL runn...
over 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration