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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

Ability to refresh a single Map and not the entire Maplib in batch

Modify the AVZMREFB REXX to allow for the refresh of a single VSAM MAP and not the entire Maplib. When controlling the refresh of VSAM maps in a batch environment where the VSAM files are reloaded frequently there is the need to control the refres...
almost 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add ability to find map dependencies

Before deleting a map, we would like a way to find any other dependent maps. Virtual views that reference the map Web Services that reference the map Virtual tables pointing to other virtual tables on the same (or different) subsystems
almost 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Trigger an alert mechanism whenever a DML transaction is captured in between 2 DDL transactions on the same table

If we run a DDL-DML-DDL scenario and update the metadata of the table using dmreaddtable command and resume mirroring, the data is getting mapped incorrectly. This has been observed where the datatypes are similar and CDC starts capturing data wit...
almost 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

US-Telco - need GDP & WKC Data Protection for multi-node database environments

This RFE is for the "strategic/longterm" option for an optimized solution w. CP4D and GDP. Other RFEs will be opened against CP4D/GDP to track other requirements/ solutions For large US Telco company integration GDP and WKC for remote PDP - this w...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Provide a resource monitor when running a jupyter notebook

Provide a resource monitor when running a jupyter notebook. when I choose a runtime resource for a notebook, e.g. "GPU v100 runtime 2.2 on python 3.9", I get 16G gpu-memory, so it's important that I monitor the realtime consumption for the gpu-mem...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Certify Information Server with SAS 9.4 M6

We are using Information Server 11.7.1 and have multiple ETL jobs that use SAS connectors to execute SAS code from the ETL server ( SAS 9.4 M3 ). However the SAS version has now been upgraded to SAS 9.4 M6 and the connectivity via the provided con...
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 4 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...
almost 2 years 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...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Prestart Service with SlotToTaskRatio different than 1

To improve processing time
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Future consideration