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Allow using “GCS Staging” when reading from Google BigQuery using read-method "General"

When using the Google BigQuery connector in read-method "Select Statement" it is possible to configure a bucket (Google Cloud Storage = GCS) for better performance. When using the read-method "General" such a configuration is not available. It wou...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

Port config issue on deployment

We have been facing issues with pods during restart of services and found this is related to a bug gap in the REST API used for deploying new pods and the port range assigned. Please reference case TS012155811 for more details.
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Under review

Enable pversions script with a new option --patchdb <path-to-patch-db>

At Morgan Stanley, we have the patch data saved under each release directory /ms/dist/3rd/PROJ/symphony/7.3.2-fp2.9/exec/patch/patchdb, to ease the query under that MS release, we would suggestion that if we can add a new option in pversions scrip...
11 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Under review

Archecker table level restore utility does not compatible of handling Informix engine complex table schema clauses

Individual Table restoration 'archecker' utility only support simple schema definition contents as the schema file. However, Informix engine support complex clauses when setting up a table. E.g. When fragmenting a table based on interval based fra...
about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

New behavior added to DEC_TO_CHAR_FMT

SELECT CHAR(DECIMAL(1.92,15,2),',') FROM SYSIBM.SYSDUMMY1 For Db2 z/OS we use setting BIF_COMPATIBILITY = V9_DECIMAL_VARCHAR For this statement we get following results (for Db2 LUW we have parameter DEC_TO_CHAR_FMT set to NEW) : Database Value Da...
11 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 2 Under review

View object also should be add to the data transformation project as source data.

Currently view object cannot be added to the data transformation project as source data. However view object also added same with table objects.
over 5 years ago in Watson Query 1 Under review

Provide for language-specific models across geos (specifically granite-8b-japanese to non-Tokyo regions)

While it is critical to offer language-specific text generation models close to the regions we anticipate will use these the most, for global companies it is important to offer text generation capabilities across languages to multiple geos. For ex...
11 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

DataStage would be able to authenticate using Azure active directory using Oauth2

Currently there is no option to use the password less authentication Oauth while connecting to Azure platform. the central team over here is preffering to have Oauth. Request you to consider this as a work request.
11 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Support for pulling Data Source credentials from HashiCorp Vault password stores (and other cloud native password vaults)

We have requirements driven by IT to standardize on storing passwords for applications in HashiCorp Vault, a centralized password store that enables fine-grained access to the credentials. Today, we have to create crude integration scripts to main...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Under review

Enable Non-Owners to Replace R/Shiny Deployments

Background: After making changes to an R/Shiny dashboard (and promoting the updated asset to a deployment space), it is preferable to "replace the asset" of an existing deployment rather than create an entirely new one (and delete the old one). Is...
11 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review