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Reading data from Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

Need Datastage integration with Amazon SQS (simple queue service) to communicate JASON file
about 8 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Enable masking credentials by default

Provide an external feature to enable "Masking" of sensitive credentials which can be retrieved through API calls for all CP4D Platform Connections. The security team at LMCO is asking if we can provide a feature to enable "Masking" of sensitive c...
about 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

Support for a Jira connector

A Public/Federal customer requires a built-in Jira connector for the on-prem Cloud Pak for Data platform. The Jira connector is requested in support of migrating 8 application workloads onto the platform. Eight distinct use cases can be migrated o...
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 1 Under review

Enabling JDBC/ODBC connection to Azure SQL database (PaaS) using Azure Active Directory Integrated Security (email address) credentail

We have requirement from user for using Azure Active Directory credential (email address) in JDBC connection string from 11.7.1 IGC New or IMAM. Currently IBM's JDBC driver in IGC New or IMAM only work with SQL Server Authentication Credential to ...
almost 6 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Allow writing from the platform through a Hive connector

As we develop models on the cloud pak platform, we re implementing the following flow: - reading data tables on our on-premise datalake from a hive connector - training a ML model from a notebook environment - writing the output of models back to ...
about 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

Introduction of SSO passthought of ACL lists. For example, SSO onto CP4D on Azure will create automatic data connections down onto the Azure FS in line with user Azure RBAC, ACL's and CP4D RBAC. This is already a key feature of Databricks and DataIQ.

Allows users to access their files in CP4D without the need to hand-crank connectuon strings.
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Supress metadata check in ODBC connector

The ODBC connector compares the metadata in DataStage with the metadata in the target system. When there is a mismatch in the metadata, warnings are issued in the DataStage Director log.Please add an option, so this check can be disabled for speci...
about 7 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Request for re-try / reconnect mechanism

We'd like to request Replication to have re-try / reconnect mechanism even without MQ multiple instances. Because currently it doesn’t support MQ multiple instances, we can use SLB, but if it has no re-connect, we can do nothing.

Support user-defined Python module

I would like to maintain a set of Python functions and classes in a separate model/script, then do an import from that module in a notebook and DO4DSX model.Use cases:* I want to move complex function definitions out of my notebook. The functions ...
over 7 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / Decision Optimization for Watson Studio 2 Planned for future release

Add ability to have multiple Q-replication targets on Db2wh

Currently on Db2wh, there is no ability to add multiple targets for Q-Replication. Please consider adding that idea as we have business case to implement such solution