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RestAPI enhancement

Through RestAPi, we would like to get SessionTag & SessionName
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Under review

CPU affinity as LSF or compatibility with taskset

Good afternoon, we are currently working with MDS and multithreaded apps and have a question regarding cpu affinity or the possibility of adding specific information to taskset command while executing. When we are using cpuLimits, we see it works ...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Querying the Information Analyser Data in Information Governance Catalog

Our customer wants to take an action according to the quality analysis results regularly. We prepare a report for them but we cannot add some specific properties like "Min - Max Values" and "Last Quality Date". They want to compare the quality cha...
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 0 Planned for future release

VEMKD performance improvement by caching VEM_LOGON

When we do regression test say 800 instances, 50K slots, we found out VEMKD thinking a long time. By having checked performance, it took minutes to finish VEM_LOGON. We request to either cache logon information to eliminate unnecessary ones
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Future consideration

[RFE][CS] - PMC becomes very slow during heavy workload

PMC becomes very slow when there is heavy workload running on a large Grid. Issue is seen on Resource Group, Resource plan, Consumer and Consumer Properties pages, however performance of Consumer Properties page is particularly bad. It takes more ...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1.2 2 Planned for future release

Compatibility of DFD with reverse proxies such as NGINX

Currently we have noticed that DFD is not compatible with reverse proxies like NGINX. With PMRs such as TS003975441, we have noticed that the way DFD works when IIS is used with NGINX is like this : NGINX URL: https://myNginxURL/ibm/iis/launchpad ...
over 5 years ago in Information Server 1 Not under consideration

Encryption for DataStage repository

Our Secuity department mandate us to encrypt all databases including the DataStage XMETA repository. When we do encrypt the DB2 database XMETA with the "DATA_ENCRYPT" option on the DB2 configuration, the WebSphere is not able to connect and I am n...
about 8 years ago in Information Server 1 Not under consideration

Allow service accounts to be longer than 8 characters

Our corporate service account naming standards across multiple platforms assumes that all operating systems support up to 20 characters. All of the OSes we use, do support longer names. We have had to make exceptions for service accounts that will...
over 5 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Certify Information Analyser to profile Parquet files in an AWS S3 bucket

In order to provide effective Data Governance, we need the ability to run Column Analysis, Data Quality Analysis, and run Data Rules against Parquet files stored in Amazon S3 Buckets. These files form a significant portion of our data estate, and ...
over 5 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 0 Not under consideration

Backport RFE134908 to 7.2.0.2

Backport RFE134908 to 7.2.0.2: Configurable backlog value in communication library
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 2 Not under consideration