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Automatically clean up old job instances

CBRE has lots of old job instances as a result of frequent Kubernetes redeployments to deal with a separate product defect related to jobs being stuck in an ACTIVATING state. They were trying to delete them iteratively through the UI but kept hitt...
2 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

SFTP Client Origin: Additional Offset Management Configuration Options

The current offset behavior of the SFTP Client origin is based on two checks after a file is processed: The stage stores the filename and modification timestamp of the last processed file in the offset. When new files arrive, the stage evaluates e...
5 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Add headers errorStackTrace, error JobId and errorJobName to Oracle CDC evicted transaction error record.

This would allow the user to identify the job that generated the error record. Currently, all three headers are null when there viewing the error record from an Oracle CDC evicted transaction. "errorStackTrace":null, "errorJobId":null, "errorJobNa...
18 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

SCH Job Monitoring / Job History should display the lastest SDC ID(s) on which a failover retry was attempted

When an SCH job fails over and enters INACTIVE_RED, there is currently no way for end users to tell via the Job Monitoring UI or Job History UI which SDC ID(s) the job is currently attempting to be retried on if the job is failing due to a START_E...
17 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Add ability to view schema when creating or configuring a Connection

When developing a pipeline, obviously we have the Preview feature, which, although really is intended to allow the developer to see sample records from the data source, also allows them to see the schema. However, when creating or configuring a Co...
16 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Connection to IBM WebSphere MQ

Customer has explored JMS connection and RabbitMQ connectivity. It appears they can connect to IBM WebSphere MQ but it needs manual workaround to get required libraries set up. There is no documentation readily available on how they can achieve th...
about 1 month ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Improve Default Failover Configuration and Centralized Management

We recently encountered a situation where, due to thread unavailability on a specific SDC, many jobs got stuck in the RED ACTIVE state. These jobs neither failed nor retried on the same SDC, resulting in no user notifications being triggered. Upon...
about 1 month ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Introduce Finite Default Retry Configuration in Pipeline

Currently, the default retry configuration is set to infinite retries (-1). In many real-world scenarios, this behavior is not useful — for example, when a job encounters persistent errors such as START_ERROR, it continues retrying indefinitely. T...
about 1 month ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Add Support for Confluent JSON Schema in Kafka Stages

Only Avro is currently supported. Even if the data is read as text and the magic byte is removed and the text is transformed into JSON, the Kafka producer cannot serialize the JSON back to the Confluent JSON schema.
about 2 months ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Add a validation check to Job Parameters edited using bulk edit mode

This would avoid downstream errors when updating pipeline versions (see screenshot). I filed https://streamsets.atlassian.net/browse/DPM-24656
about 2 months ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted