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Workflow advanced logic validations and custom error messages

When defining a workflow advanced logic validation with a custom error message the information provided to the user when the validation fails is confusing. The custom error message as define does show in the yellow drop down guidance box that disp...
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

Expand/Collapse Symmetrical and Asymmetrical in Universal Reports

Similar to the settings in PAW, it should be possible in PAfE / PASSL to expand or close C-elements asymmetrically in Universal Reports. In financial reports, several dimensions are usually nested in columns. E.g. Act vs. budget, years, months, wh...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

PostgreSQL as the source does not support BIT (Data type )

We use CDC as the main real-time synchronization tool. However, when a postgresql database is encountered, when there are BIT data type tables in the table, the table cannot be copied using cdc. As a result, many data on the production line cannot...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1

a standard error message on PAW for server being not available

Dear IBM, we need a standard error message that the server is not available. It would also be nice that if there are many objects in the book that we only get one message that the server is not available and not for every object in the book. Thank...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Extend Db2 Message monitoring IFCID 197 to include information about message tokens

Our shop is using ITM Situation management to heavily automate processing/notification for our customers and thus minimize the use of custom logic to be maintained (specific REXX programs etc.) . One feature that we leverage is the OMEGAMON for Db...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Review automatic prefetch

This IDEA it to request a more dynamic management of PREFETCHSIZE when it is set to AUTOMATIC. The documentation states: "The database updates the prefetch size automatically whenever the number of containers in a table space changes (following su...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 2 Not under consideration

Scripting stages to handle Date objects without converting to Datetime

Right now, scripting stages in Data Collector automatically convert Date fields to Datetime as it passes through the pipeline. For example, the Jython Evaluator stage will take Date objects and map it to the java.util.Date class, adding a time com...
28 days ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Support for Snowflake's Auto-Increment Feature

Snowflake tables may have columns which are set to be auto incremental and are the primary key for the table. While writing data to Snowflake the column values should be auto populated with incremental unique values. Currently when this field is n...
28 days ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Support LDAP when uid's do are not "full dn"

Add SCH On-Prem's LDAP synchronization support for the posixGroup object class. Currently does not have support for LDAP directories using posixGroup uid’s because they don’t include a member's full dn.
29 days ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Feature to preserve offset between job runs and SDCs without enabling failover

Customer is requesting for an option in Control Hub to preserve the offset between job runs without enabling Job Failover. This is because they usually have only 1 SDC running at a time, but when they upgrade to a different SDC engine, they want t...
29 days ago in StreamSets 0 Under review