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push existing CPD notifications to external issue tracker (e.g., JIRA)

The execution of a workflow in CPD triggers a notification which is assigned to a specific user group in CPDaaS. Now the notification is only visible in CPD. The customer wants to make the notification available to an external issue tracker to mak...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

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...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Submitted

After a load with IDAA_Dual, the table doesn't remain in Recommended Load (yes, modified data).

We started using IDAA_DUAL as the loader. It correctly loads DB2 and IDAA, but leaves the loaded partition in Recommended Load (yes, modified data) for the following reason: It should be loaded; real-time statistics were evaluated and data changes...
2 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Submitted

DB2 LUW version of z/OS Utility Estimator

reference to: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/soo-kim/2025/02/27/introducing-new-db2-utility-reorg-estimation-featu We would like a DB2 LUW version of the z/OS Utility Estimator to help estimate the duration of planned offline table...
2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Limited the number of row processed with an update/delete statement

THis is similar to MS Server (and other DBs) DELETE ... TOP <N> and TOP <n> PERCENT This would help avoid LTX issues without custom SQL coding, it would minimize the time the table is locked UPDATE FIRST 10000 COUNT 0 ... N <table&g...
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Support for ON DELETE SET NULL and ON UPDATE CASCADE clauses in FOREIGN KEY statements

A customer wanted to use a construction like ALTER TABLE detail_table ADD CONSTRAINT FOREIGN KEY (link_column) REFERENCES master_table ON DELETE SET NULL; so that referencing values would be updated to NULL automatically if a parent row was delete...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Manta Talend scanner should be able to parse jobs implementing the Dynamic Schema feature of Talend

Manta does not currently support Talend's Dynamic Schema feature. The Dynamic Feature dynamically derives the metadata from source. This is a common pattern used in Talend jobs in scenarios where number of attributes is unknown. For example, selec...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Submitted

XML export of views

Hello, It would be very helpful to have a native option in Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) to export views directly as XML files. Currently, we have implemented a workaround that is quite elaborate: The Excel file is downloaded via the export...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Automated Update Statistics and FORCE

AUS appends FORCE to UPDATE STATISTICS statements saved in "sysadmin:aus_command.aus_cmd_exe" when using C function "aus_evaluate_stats" but not when using SPL "aus_evaluator". Both need a configuration parameter to enable or disable FORCE. Some s...
7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Reset the serial value in the partition page if the table no longer has a serial column

If you want to check whether a serial value is close to its maximum value, it is very unpleasant that tables that no longer have a serial value or whose serial value has been changed to a Serial8 or BigSerial value still have the last value in the...
8 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted