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Provide an option for Deferred merge method in Snowflake destination

https://quickstarts.snowflake.com/guide/connectors_example_push_based_java/img/e5a0394034661f7.pdf Deferred merge is a pattern whereby you maintain a temporary or hot data table (1) with changed or new records for an interval of time. When that ti...
about 1 month ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Need to revisit timestemp for incremental backup

our database backup size approaches 17 TB on a very busy system. When we attempt to take a Level 1 backup with ontape, the database engine throws an exception indicating that the backup is too old. As a result, we are forced to take a Level 0 back...
2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

When restoring content with "CM.DEPLOYMENTINCLUDECONFIGURATION=True", offer an option to merge the configration parameters from the old to new dispatcher.

It is not always possible to deploy content to servers with identically-named hosts. Currently, all of the configurations (including tuning settings and advanced parameters at the dispatcher and service levels) are deployed into the "old" dispatch...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Support deploying watsonx.data on Openshift on IBM Z

Our client wants to have an hybrid setting, using watsonx.data SaaS for their development/testing environments and later deploying production workloads on-premises, for compliance purposes. They have spare capacity on an IBM Z16 mainframe and woul...
9 months ago in watsonx.data 1 Not under consideration

Send IDAA internal logs to an external Syslog Server

We want to send all (administrative) logs from the IDAA to our internal Syslog Server via a secured (TLS1.3) connection. This means all activities and sign-on/offs that are currently logged internally only, shall be sent to the Syslog Server. To g...
11 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Future consideration

MDX comment in Subset Editor

Hello all, I would like to continue to have the ability to comment the MDX expressions in PAW. I am used to be able to comment MDX expressions in my subsets from the TM1 Architect. Also it is very interesting for the business department. There are...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Parameter 'PCTFREE FOR UPDATE' in Db2 LUW similar to Db2 z/OS

in Db2 z/OS there is a 'PCTFREE FOR UPDATE' parameter. We will need a similar parameter for Db2 LUW. Background: Our datawarehouse application 'IDH' uses many Bi-Temporal tables. An update of any row in the source system will lead to the logical t...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Under review

Please increase size of LAST_FAILURE_REASON column in Task Attributes table.

The SSM and SIM error log is saved in LAST_FAILURE_REASON column of Task Attributes table. It is set to 2048 chars currently. However, the error message is much longer than 2048 chars. So we can't see the whole error message in Task Attributes tab...
2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Submitted

Switch CAE Server in Sysplex from Hot Stand By to Active while running

Hello IBM, we have the Db2 Query monitor in an active passive configuration in a Syplex. During Maintenance we begin the with the secondary side of the plex were the hot stand by instance of the Query Monitor is running. After the maintenance we w...
2 months ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Integration of CyberArk to CDC management Console.

We have been thinking of adding a new functionality to our CDC setup. Currently when we login the management console using username/password. We want to store such users/password in our CyberArk and want if CDC management console can access those ...
2 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review