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Externalize the -904 Resource Unavailable error pertaining to IDAA workload

Currently the resource unavailable messages for IDAA workload isn’t getting trapped in DB2 or logs. Except for the application logs and or additional trace processing. We would like for the IDAA related messages to be captured either in DB2 or SYS...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Is a defect

Create reference table for table with TYPE=H

We use reference tables extensively. We create them using the stored procedure SYSPROC.ACCEL_CREATE_REFERENCE_TABLES Unfortunately we cannot create them for history tables (TYPE=H in SYSTABLES). We want you to add that to the solution. We have not...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Fallback to Db2 when IDAA replication is lagging

When Db2 detects that IDAA replication is lagging under the integrated synchronization process, the query waits for replication to catch up before being served from the accelerator. We need an option controlled by a package parm or zparm that will...
11 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

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...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 4 Planned for future release

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 12 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 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 b...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

InSync to NOT disable query acceleration

When IBM Integrated Synchronization detects an error condition for a table, that table is removed from acceleration to prevent Db2 from returning stale data because no more updates are synchronized to Accelerator. The incremental update process in...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

was a load of idaa table from DB2 z/os or from copyTable

When loading a table in IDAA v8, you can use copytable instead of a DB2load-table and save some cpu. (and get identical data) When you load the same table on 2 accelerators. you want to load thet table on acclerator 1 from DB2 and then copytable t...
12 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

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...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under 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...
about 12 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration