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Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS

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Report Insync latency on table level

As of today, Insync latency is reported via "Q8STCRL: The current replication latency for this DB2 system". This provides an overall latency but does not help which table is the most contributer to the latency. If customers monitor a high latency ...
over 3 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 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Display status of IDAA statistics in List Tasks view

Given the issues we've had with the new IDAA appliance, it would be helpful if we could see the status of IDAA statistics for tables referenced in an active query. See attached for screenshots of Data Studio List Tasks view and statistics icon.
about 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

force the execution of a query on an accelerator if more than one is available.

The CURRENT ACCELERATOR special register specifies a preferred target accelerator or accelerators to which Db2 sends dynamic SQL queries. But If you have multiple accelerators on which the same set of Db2 tables are accelerated, by default the wor...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 2 Not under 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 ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 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...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

a user-accessible interface to disable the telnet port in a permanent way

our security team considers the telnet port less secure and therefore would like us to block it. currently this needs to be done by an IBM service engineer after each SW update, we would like for a more comfortable way to do this which will also ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 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 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

CDC Should Ignore Backout Processing For UOW That Are Not Subscribed

We were impacted by an NPS failure due to the Postmaster task failing. Postmaster restarted successfully. There is a known fix for this. After the restart we noticed a large log recovery lag (36 hours) due to a long-running UOW that had no commits...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support Temporal table(history table) in IDAA after it was loaded to IDAA as a regular table

Support Temporal table(history table) in IDAA after it was loaded to IDAA as a regular table. A regular table was loaded an use incremental update in the IDAA. Later, this regular table was changed to HISTORY table. We need that this table will...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration