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Infosphere CDC for Db2® for z/OS - A new option like "alter_table_data_capture_flag_allow_turn_off"

We have tables in simultaneous replication with different products: CDC and SQL Replica both from IBM.Unfortunately, the CDC Z/OS does not have the ‘alter_table_data_capture_flag_allow_turn_off’ parameter that the ‘remote z/os source’ does and the...
21 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Have pipeline retry interval to be configurable with no exponential backoff

StreamSets is currently implementing exponential backoff in pipeline retry logic. The wait time between retries starts at 15 seconds and doubles until reaching 5 minutes. Please add a function for pipeline retry interval to be configurable with no...
21 days ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Regular expressions in calculated fields

For some raw-data fields like res_req or effective_res_req in the job_acct index, it is right now not possible to extract single parameters like the mem-parameter in the rusage section. This could be achieved by supporting regular expressions (reg...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Future consideration

Manta Alation Export - SAML Authentication Support

Current version of Manta does not support SAML authentication for Alation export connection. Currently, we are using a work around in place by using a local account for Alation export authentication. According to our company security policy, this ...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Automate the clean up of files in Cloud pak for data

In a customer case after only 9 month the file-api-claim had over 800k files and it was suspected that we had a performance issue. We disabled selinux relabling But we also ran the cron job cleanup script. But this was not enough. We had to run mo...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Future consideration

The file-api-claim can become a bottlekneck due to all files converging to one PVC

In multiple customer cases, there have been issues due to high file cout. As workaround the selinux relabling disabling allows tome relief to this issue. Using file-api-claim could lead to performance bottlekneck in the future for very large envir...
4 months ago in watsonx.ai 1 Submitted

Introduction of Framework 'View Transaction History' log or similar concept for Data Modules to capture changes.

The 'View Transaction History' log within Framework was a good way to identify evolving changes on a FM project. Data Modules, by my understanding, do not have this facility. This type of enhancement for DM's would be beneficial for developers to ...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Submitted

PAW: Checkbox data format

Checkboxes are very useful for mappings and for custom approvals. Now the users need to select values in picklist in custom approvals (like "approved" or "declined"), or to enter "0" and "1" in mappings. It would be much more comfortable for them ...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace: Replace URL path option for images in books

Ease and risk reduction when it is necessary to change images on several screens and books at the same time (currently it is necessary to enter image by image and change manually). It could be an option in admin with replace (FROM/TO) that would s...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

performance improvement for specific replication instance

Need improve deleting synchronization performance for big table with wide unique key column: We see latency keep increasing to 2 hours when batch deleting happen on big table which has ~1 billion rows and unique key includes 11 columns. More detai...
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review