We’d like to share a cautionary tale with all Netezza customers running Mako/Striper systems with M4 hosts.
IBM employs a mechanism known as Feature on Demand, or FoD for short. This mechanism disables certain what we would describe as essential features at the motherboard level unless separately licensed and paid for. Given that Mako and Striper systems are way past End of Support, it is not possible to purchase new keys any longer for PureData for Analytics compatible motherboards. Nevertheless, it is possible to backup existing keys.
