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Be able to add or remove stages on a link in DataStage Designer

Currently when you want to add a new stage on an existing link, you have to deconnect the link from one of its stage, add the new stage and create a new link from that stage (remapping the Input columns to the Output, which is currently not possib...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Improve user interface for Exception profiles

DB2 Automation Tool - Need to improve the interface for the exception profiles. 1) We would like to be able to document the profiles in more detail than is allowed in 1 line. 2) We need the ability to control the ANDing and ORing of the conditions...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

CLI to set property “Message Handler for Parallel Jobs” for DataStage projects

We use the property “Message Handler for Parallel Jobs” at project level in some DataStage projects. To define the message handler, we start the "InfoSphere DataStage Administor" tool, select the DataStage project, then button "Properties" and tab...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Patched Spark 2.4.3 as new micro version

Supporting multiple patched versions of Spark 2.4.3 on a cluster, in order to facilitate per SIG Spark 2.4.3_patchversion roll out. This will require a Spark 2.4.3_version for every new patch.
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Future consideration

7.2.1.client-13: does not have the SoamFactory.setSymEnv method

Regarding the use of the following: SoamFactory.initialize(); SoamFactory.setSymEnv("EGO_MASTER_LIST","hostname"); <-- the master VIP (on-premise or cloud master ip) SoamFactory.setSymEnv("EGO_KD_PORT","vemkd_port"); <-- 7870 SoamFactory.set...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

let db2adutl work cross-dbpartition on one LPAR, as it did before

Before DB2 11.5.8.0.1 db2adutl could work on different dbpartitions on the same LPAR.Now it throws an error that input database partition number/current database partition number are different, if DB2NODE is not explicitly set.db2adutl should be a...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 3 Is a defect

Request to not ask business users to escape reserved characters on the FTS

Business users are often missing to add the escape characters “\\” as it is confusing for them to perform this type of search. We should have a workaround on this such as say use a double quote to search for an exact match, etc.
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Request to index catalog by catalog

Our customer has more than 25 million data and it is not feasible to do a full indexing every month with multiple days of downtime. Indexing by catalog helps us big time.
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Support of Lookup table type attribute in Lookup Table Specifications in Business UI.

Hi Team, The support of Lookup table type attribute in Lookup Table Specifications which has been removed from Business UI now. It will be good if we keep supporting that option as we see multiple use cases where need to have lookup referencing...
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 0 Future consideration

Add support to Kerberos ticket with new "renew-until" date for already submitted jobs

While using Kerberos ticket forwarding on a LSF cluster: Currently TGT found on the submission host is copied to LSF cache and forwarded to the execution host at job submission; These tickets can be renewed automatically by LSF until the TGT "rene...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 4 Not under consideration