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istool import DataStage jobs concurrently

InfoSphere Information Server's istools does not support concurrent import of DataStage jobs.
over 8 years ago in Information Server 2 Not under consideration

Allow to set/modify the same option in multiple esubs

Currently a specific option can only be set or modified once through an esub, even if multiple esub's are run. If an option is set a second time, the error message ... Conflict parameter <PARAMETER_NAME> - Ignored. appears. There are at leas...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration

IE11 should be supported for IGC-new, Enterprise search, Admin Console-new

Our customer Hankou Bank is using IGC 11.7.1.1 and from the system requirement of Information Server 11.7.1.1(Link), IE11 is supported, but from the support notes for IE11, it said: DataStage Flow Designer, Information Governance Catalog (New User...
almost 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

Update lsf.shared with up-to-date CPU models

The file `lsf.shared` provided with Spectrum LSF is outdated. The CPU models listed seem to be 10 years old and older and there don't seem to be any updates from IBM. I suggest that IBM regularly updates this file with up-to-date CPU models and me...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Information Analyzer Virtual table data security

We have observed VT data security issues in Information Analyzer. IA is allowing users to view and create virtual table on all data sources which are not added in current project. For example, we have two projects "USDO" and "SDMO_AML". My user id...
over 3 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 0 Not under consideration

AWS S3 connector through proxy

System: InfoSphere Metadata Asset ManagerActor: Client get the data from Amazon cloud Description: We are trying to get catalog from cloud in IMAM using AWS 3 connector. We are not able to establish the successful connection to cloud and it is thr...
over 8 years ago in Information Server 1 Functionality already exists

bhosts and lshosts should have an option to let them perform more like the scheduler

Currently, if I have a host with two exclusive resources in the lsf.cluster file <hostname> <model> <type> 1 () () () (!res1 !res2) If I run the following bhosts command, it acts like "grep" instead of like the scheduler, and rep...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

To have separate timeout configuration for session expiration of interactive users sessions and back-end batch processes

Based on the recommendation for large metadata import - https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21621492 Inactive Session timeout needs to be configured to longer timeout value (86400 seconds) as metadata import batch processes run for ...
over 6 years ago in Information Server 2 Not under consideration

new view for a XMETA table

Hello, please develop new views (in XMETA or CMVIEWS database schema) for the following XMETA tables:ASCLMODELPHYSICALMODEL (exposing at least the following columns NAME_XMETA, xmeta_repos_object_id_xmeta, namespace_xmeta) and INSIGHTAPPLICATINSTT...
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Planned for future release

see information asset assignment trackable in workflow

According to guidance from Case TS001770322, assigning an information resource asset to an already published term does not initiate the workflow process.We need ALL change made in one term to start the workflow process as this results in a data go...
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Planned for future release