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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Knowledge Catalog
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 13, 2020

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Provide DDL of assets when analyze phase of automated discovery fails.

When analyze phase of automated discovery fails, providing DDL of assets helps users to understand and/or troubleshoot the issue. For example, a view assets could not be accessed for data anymore when some of its dependency table is not available. Without info about the asset type and DDL, it is hard for an ICP4D user to understand why analyze phase could fail due to a non-existing table which user does not even select for analyze.

Sample reproduction steps:

In Db2 source:
db2 "create view a_view as (select * from TEST_TABLE)"
db2 "rename table TEST_TABLE to TEST_TABLE_renamed"

In ICP4D:
Select A_VIEW as a table asset for Automated Discovery, it fails with the following error message about TEST_TABLE rather than about A_VIEW itself:
[
  {
    "name": "Column analysis {ec1481df.fee6c3ac.0oona7b3o.bsvocn3.3c1vd6.u5us6htsp6c5u38fh4146}",
    "message": "DataStage job failed. Check the log for more details.\nDataStage job log:\nEntry 26: main_program: Fatal Error: The connector received an error from the driver. The reported error is: \n[SQLSTATE 56098] com.ibm.db2.jcc.am.SqlException: DB2 SQL Error: SQLCODE=-727, SQLSTATE=56098, SQLERRMC=3;-204;42704;DB2INST1.TEST_TABLE, DRIVER=3.71.22\n[SQLSTATE 56098] com.ibm.db2.jcc.am.SqlException: DB2 SQL Error: SQLCODE=-727, SQLSTATE=56098, SQLERRMC=3;-204;42704;DB2INST1.TEST_TABLE, DRIVER=3.71.22.\n",
    "jobLog": [],
    "elapsedTime": 15619,
    "status": "failed"
  }
]
Needed by Date Nov 30, 2020
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 26, 2020

    Got it, thanks @weiren! This explainability improvement is something that we'll look to improve in the next generation of discovery

  • Guest
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    |     Oct 21, 2020

    ICP4D could indicate the asset is not an actual table, but rather something else, e.g. a view or an alias etc, and provide a way to show asset's DDL, in this example, it would be
    "create view a_view as (select * from TEST_TABLE)"

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 20, 2020

    Thanks for your idea Weiren! Can you provide the ideal error message in the case that you outlined above? Thanks

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