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Salesforce Plugin Authentication Enhancement

Update 6/23 - Main question for Aha is on NTLM Authentication support for Salesforce connector. See below for more details from Dayo Nelson (images attached): We currently use Salesforce plugin stage with proxy and no proxy ID and password. The pr...
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

Identify Flat File - Import of CSV using headers or file sample / also in batch manner

Right now my understanding is there are 2 ways to import csv files. The file connector and the Information Analyzer identify flat file. The file connector is cumbersome because i have to describe every column 1 by 1 and it is not really feasible w...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

DSNHDECP usage

The DSNHDECP modules is currently used in our shop and needs to be created for every DB2 subsystem, or data sharing group. This means that we need to create individual SDSNEXIT libraries for each subsystem. We used to have one SDSNEXIT which held ...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Symphony HostFactory launch instance based on time

We request HF launce instances including spot instance based on time and terminated based on with optional time and workload
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2 1 Future consideration

Support Symphony HostFactory CLI

Symphony HostFactory CLI support, like: 1. Get current requestor, provider list, and detail json file for each requestor, provider. 2. symA and all requestors running state 3. Apply new json file to requestor and provider. 4. Change HostFactory de...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2 1 Planned for future release

HostFactory GUI improvement

HostFactory/Cloud GUI improvementConfiguration:1. Add configuration change for requestors with application list check button 2. Change provider configuration json file to the form with pull down values and explanation for each parameters3. Add act...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2 1 Planned for future release

PAX and Cognos Office Connection Compatibility

Planning Analytics PAX V63 and FWD is not compatible with Cognos Office Connection. Both of these are used in our company. Limiting the compatibility of PAX is not good. We would like to get latest updates of PAX.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Balanced Optimization support/ELT/Push-down support for snowflake

Push-down optimization through InfoSphere DataStage Balanced Optimization features should be extended to include cloud native database like Snowflake.
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Expand Above instead of Expand Below when you want to Expand Above instead of Expand Below

In PAX Exploration views - Expand on rows with a TM1 subset that is set to “EXPAND ABOVE”, will expand below… should expand above. Development have stated that this is not a defect. By using the expand above in Architect it sets the subset t...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Would like OPT_SEEK_FACTOR as a session set environment option

In 11.70, a new "seek cost" component for index costing was introduced, the purpose of which was to more accurately reflect the cost for seeking in an index scan (when index is not clustered) for large indexes. OPT_SEEK_FACTOR is an undocumented O...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration