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Should add checker function while importing BI report from CSV in IMAM

For importing BI Report from CSV using IMAM. If Report name in BI Query section not match to Report name in BI Report section, there are no warning about this. Then, Currently, I need to check it should exactly in csv file. To make sure asset impo...
about 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Future consideration

IBM Data Replication CDC support AWS Glue Schema Registry

Idea: IIDR Kafka target on AWS (AWS MSK) should support AWS Glue Schema Registry. According to current documentation for IIDR version 11.4.0: By default, replicated data in the Kafka message is written in the Confluent Avro binary format. The foll...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

WKC won't scan NESTED and REPEATED data_types in BigQuery

Nested Columns: WKC won't scan nested columnsBQ "Record" data type = Nested column Projects with nested columns are not ready for Go Live.Impact:• Will nullify nested columns• Some projects will be updated manually vs. others in WKC, so we'll be o...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Prestart Service with SlotToTaskRatio different than 1

To improve processing time
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 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...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future 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...
over 1 year ago in Product Master 0 Future consideration

Workflow bulk termination and restart enhancements

In developing GRC workflows, it's apparent that if we publish a workflow version and users begin to use it, and then we publish a newer version of the workflow later on, the users are expecting to see the newer version reflected in their existing ...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

"Data Smoother" regression line on plot node isn't able to add value with binary data

When trying to visually understand the relationship between a boolean value compared to a continuous numeric feature, the default and only choice for "data smoothing" is a LOESS regression line. It produces only a line that jumps between both bina...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Future consideration

Enhanced error messaging when loading external data sources to the input node, specifically SAS datasets with data issues

Currently, there is little to no error messaging given for loading data from SAS datasets containing data that is unable to load. In our case, a SAS dataset dimply fails with no message regarding a large dataset with a single row containing data t...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Future consideration

Support for Cognos Analytics 11.2 and above

We have been using SPSS Statistics connecting to our legacy data warehouse. We have moved out datasources to Cognos Analytics and user will only be able to access datasources through Cognos. However SPSS statistics is not compatible with Cognos An...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Future consideration