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Support for List type in Variant datatype column for Snowflake Destination stage

Customer is trying to insert an array json into a Snowflake table with one of the column of Variant datatype. They encountered error "invalid type 'LIST', column type is 'VARIANT' " when pushing array data to Snowflake destination stage.
26 days ago in StreamSets 2 Needs more information

Unify data quality rules per table into a single job

When quality rules are created, a separate DataStage job is generated for each table column. For a table with 100 columns requiring quality analysis, this results in 100 individually processed jobs. Bradesco had implemented a workaround where, aft...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Needs more information

Performance improvement for expression

Add one column with STATIC expression on target, but got long processing time (delay) on apply side. Would like to know the reason why. New Expression:Expression: ‘MES1’ -> site_cd Existing expression looks like as:CASE WHEN :SYS_CD is NULL the...

new column alteration feature: enable SET GENERATED ALWAYS FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP

Use Case: A table is created with the following column definition: TECHTIMESTAMP GENERATED ALWAYS FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP The clients use the table (already contains data records), so that values have already been generated ...
10 months ago in Db2 2 Needs more information

Data captured in long transactions with guaranteed delivery to destination

It is usefull because sometimes a very long transaction pass through the Capture process but can´t be delivered causing memory lack at destination. The benefit would be not losing the data transferred to the destination. One suggestion would be to...
almost 2 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 2 Needs more information

IIDR CDC for Db2 for i (AS400) as a Source is not replicating updates and moving forward.

Hello Team, We have observed that IIDR CDC for Db2 for i (AS400) is not replicating the updates to target. We are getting below message in Subscription Events. *********************************************************************** Type: Diagnosti...
7 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Needs more information

ER should have an option to replicate tables between different databases

Currently there is not an option in ER that would allows us to replicate a table from database A to database B. You must use the same database. There are real life situations where you need to replicate a table to a differente server/instance/data...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Needs more information

Targeted Object Analysis

Currently if we want to find if a table,Index,Database etc are access by any DB2 threads or not then we have capture info on all Authids in a subsystem and then filter on the captured info to see if the object is used or not In a CPU constraint en...
4 months ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Needs more information

Conditional automatic journals to post values on different from REPO journal types

When using conditional automatic journals, it is not possible to re-direct postings to a different journal type then REPO, even if puting it on "Journal type" field, on control table. Even if filtering Trial Balance to show only REPO/BASE, automat...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 8 Needs more information

In IKC when doing meta data import and meta data enrichment, we need the ability to fetch the asset at the column level.

When doing meta data import and meta data enrichment, it is not possible to fetch the asset at the column level. We can only fetch on table levels.
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Needs more information