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Adding new retry mechanism for terminateinstances and other calls to AWS

Adding new retry mechanism for terminateinstances and other calls to AWS similar. Currently HF only has retry mechanism for "requestSpotFleet" and "describeSpotFleet"
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Predefined data classes should be leveraged for automatic business term assignment

Per our documenation, "Business terms that are linked to the predefined data classes Code, Identifier, Date, Text, Indicator, Quantity, and Boolean are not considered for term assignment". A large Federal customer requests the ability to leverage ...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

CP4D - Need API for Zen database to collect user and group information

As per the UIOLI process, we need to pull user, group and last accessed timestamp of a user for CP4D. This is inline with case #TS015500667, we are able to see the required information of users and groups in ZEN database. Now, we want to know if t...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Functionality already exists

Hashi Vault support for Kv1 engine

CPD does not support Hashi Vault using the Kv1 engine at the moment. We would request to enhance CPD product which includes support for Hashi vault Kv1 engine too.
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Not under consideration

Require that symA wait for an instance to join the cluster before returning it.

Require that symA wait for an instance to join the cluster before returning it. Currently the symA can return an instance before join. We can control this behaviour with a config param, but the default should be to wait.
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

OIDC support for the Rest API

Currently OIDC support is only available for SymRest for workload submission. But it is not in place for RESTful API reference for EGO. it will be good to bridge the gap.
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Provide option to start pre-start service with preferred resource group

Currently, only standby service supports to start service on preferred resource group. Request to have such option with pre-start service as well as the first time run will always slow with standby service
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Allow using “GCS Staging” when reading from Google BigQuery using read-method "General"

When using the Google BigQuery connector in read-method "Select Statement" it is possible to configure a bucket (Google Cloud Storage = GCS) for better performance. When using the read-method "General" such a configuration is not available. It wou...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

Ability to backup & restore individual services without needing to restore the entire namespace

With the exception of a few services, customers currently only have the ability to backup and restore the entire namespace. Customers require the ability to backup and restore individual services, rather than the current 'all-or-nothing' approach....
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Log something meaningful from the python symphony calls when something is missing

When an unexperienced symphony python developer trying to connect symphony via his python script (without knowing that he did not call function conn.create_session(sca) before making the connection call... the python script core dumped without giv...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration