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Key Pair Authentication for Snowflake Target Agent for CDC

As per my organization's security standards, I need to use Key Pair authentication to connect to Snowflake. I need to also fetch the private key and passphrase from secret store. The private key and passphrase will be rotated in the secret store, ...
over 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

Support retries at the node level in Watsonx Pipelines

Currently Watsonx Pipelines do not support interacting at the node level for restarting tasks in case of failures and require rerunning the entire pipeline job. This makes it complicated to use for complex pipelines where any given task could fail...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Get sequence's NEXTCACHEREFRESHVALUE from cache.

Please see the attached word document and as our development teams are trying to retrieve the NEXTCACHEREFESHVALUE value after ALTER SEQUENCE ..RESTART and before invoking NEXT VALUE but could not able to find the way to get the value of NEXT CACH...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

Asynchronous index rebuild at restart

When an index rebuild is required at the restart time, it can depend on the connection of the first user accessing the table. If the connection is killed, the index rebuild need to redone. It would be smarter to let the rebuild complete even if th...
about 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Add "recovering" state into spark-magic

If the Spark Driver itself crashes(Due to cluster or Job missconfiguratons) and Livy tries to restart it but failes, Livy will get leave the session in Recovering state and never remove it until the Livy Recovery Directory (Specified in /opt/ibm/d...
over 6 years ago in watsonx.ai 2 Planned for future release

Certificate renewal needs to be more transparent and controlled in a time convenient

Customer is using the Watson Studio IDE with Jupyter, spark. They have a team of 30-40 data scientist that work during the day and it appears an internal CP4D certificate renewal. This caused 150 pods to reboot during the day. Although this task s...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Restart HPID service on all nodes after hardware replacement

Make part of the standard practice when replacing hardware to require support to do two tasks: 1) There are no errant or orphaned hpid processes consuming resources on any node. 2) systemctl restart hpid on all nodes to ensure clean instantiation ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

In the "Availability" alerts correct the "Log Space" to operate on current space usage rather than top usage. I don't see this as an enhancement - I see this as a fix for a broken feature.

Currently when you exceed the threshold there is an alert raised. Once the usage drops the alert does not drop. The only way to 'close' the alert is to stop/start the database ('Deactivate') - ie an exclusive outage. In a production database this ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Restart capability for failed subscriptions

Would like to see CDD Subscriptions restart automatically when there is a failure on the Target Datastore. Our configuration is IBM Mainframe DB2 => IBM InfoSphere CDD => Bluemix Cloudant. We have experienced failures when Bluemix Cloudant i...
almost 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

LOAD should not be restarted when Apply fails during SET INTEGRITY

When setting up Replication for a DB2 Table for the first time Apply will use a LOAD FROM Cursor to do an initial copy of the tables data. If there are constraints or generated columns defined for that table Apply will issue a SET INTEGRITY comman...
about 8 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release