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Mainframe Data Service

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MDS/ODL JDBC driver pathname

The MDS Driver is shipped with a date in the path, i.e:dv-jdbc-3.1.201803141024/dv-jdbc-3.1.201803141024.jar With every new JDBC driver, the pathname changes.This requires every user to change their JCL/scripts to point to the new JDBC driver path...
over 6 years ago in IBM Open Data Analytics for z/OS (IzODA) / Mainframe Data Service 0 Future consideration

IBM ODA virutal table columns gets converted to upper case

trying to write the data to cassandra DB from izoda. Every thing look good except that columns names defined in virtual table in ODA coming as upper case. However cassandra DB column names are defined as lower case.. This is causing cassandra unab...
about 5 years ago in IBM Open Data Analytics for z/OS (IzODA) / Mainframe Data Service 4 Not under consideration

Datetime arithmetic in data studio generated SQL

Our team uses the MDS Data Studio in Eclipse for generating reports on SMF 30 records. Reports are requested by Test Architects and therefore require us to neatly export them with the "Export..." feature. However, the SQL that gets generated in MD...
over 5 years ago in IBM Open Data Analytics for z/OS (IzODA) / Mainframe Data Service 0 Future consideration

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