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Open a Pipeline or DataStage Flow from the Pipeline Canvas with 2 clicks only

For Pipeline Jobs or DataStage Job nodes in the canvas when editing a Pipeline, if you want to open the Pipeline or DataStage Flow that's being executed, you must click 4 times: Double-click the node (or right-click/menu then Open) Click the menu ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

Apache Cassandra for Datastage Stage does not have option to execute SQL statement

Current Apache Cassandra for Datastage stage has options to define columns, pass the schema and table name, if we need to filter out data or run a custom SQL statement it does not provide any option. It would be necessary for developers to have an...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Visual C++ 2013 EOS

TS016714232 We've noticed that Visual C++ 2013 is a built-in component in Symphony package. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.0?topic=configurations-software-included-spectrum-symphony This has been EOS just since April 2024. So wh...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Future consideration

Support SD_BYPASS_AUTHENTICATION_BY_APPLICATION for Kerberos Enabled Cluster

I just realized that per documentation here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.2?topic=rw-directly-connecting-recursive-session-spectrum-symphony-session-manager-ssm , SD_BYPASS_AUTHENTICATION_BY_APPLICATION is not supported when we...
7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3

Must have Data Service available on DataStage Anywhere

Ford has running DataStage NextGen on GCP (OpenShift), wants to move to DataStage Anywhere but didn't see Data Service as part of DS Anywhere and wanted to have it before moving to Anywhere Platform ASAP
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Must have BAPI connector available on DataStage Anywhere

Ford has running DataStage NextGen on GCP (OpenShift), wants to move to DataStage Anywhere but didn't see BAPI connector as part of DS Anywhere and wanted to have it before moving to Anywhere Platform ASAP
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics version with 2-3 years maintenance, independently from other software versions deployed on same cluster

*** Please note: IDEA for a future evolution of CA on Software Hub ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/software-hub/5.1.x?topic=new-cognos-analytics ) *** Any dependency to the version of another software deployed as well on the same Software Hub cluste...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Different Cognos versions within one CP4D cluster

*** Please note: IDEA for a future evolution of CA on Software Hub ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/software-hub/5.1.x?topic=new-cognos-analytics ) *** Different Cognos versions within one cluster must be possible.Helmcharts are required on-site for ...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhance monitoring within cloud pak for data on resources used by users

Today, a customer can monitor pods in cloud pak for data. But it is difficult to find what user is using a lot of resources. It requires investigation. The customer has created a script that lists watson Studio Jupyter, spark rstudio usage by pods...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

All the Links gets deleted when a stage is removed in Pipelines, Enhance it to delete only the stage

When the user deletes a stage in Pipeline, not only the stage gets deleted but all the links gets deleted, if a user deletes a stage by mistake he needs to setup all the links again, is it possible to enhance so that only the stage gets deleted
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted