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Enable masking credentials by default

Provide an external feature to enable "Masking" of sensitive credentials which can be retrieved through API calls for all CP4D Platform Connections. The security team at LMCO is asking if we can provide a feature to enable "Masking" of sensitive c...
11 months ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

Allow writing from the platform through a Hive connector

As we develop models on the cloud pak platform, we re implementing the following flow: - reading data tables on our on-premise datalake from a hive connector - training a ML model from a notebook environment - writing the output of models back to ...
11 months ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

DataStage - Azure [Datalake] Storage Connector - Support parallelism parquet format

From PMR it has been confirmed that: Parallel Read/write - CSV and Delimited only support parallel write operations, rest of all file formats do not support parallel read/write. Parquet format doesn't support parallel read/write It is not document...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Support for Db2 Temporal Joins

Temporal table and Time Travel Queries are a powerful functionality which is not yet supported in Db2 although it has been introduced many years ago. The Join stage needs to be extended for Business-Time otions like "FOR BUSINESS_TIME FROM '1990-0...
almost 8 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

DataStage connectivity for Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB SQL API (noSQL)

As you've already done for Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API, can you also developp a connector to Azure Cosmos DB SQL API ?
almost 6 years ago in Connectivity 3 Not under consideration

Support for Apache Accumulo through DataWave

USG customer uses Apache Accumulo as one of their main data repositories. Need CP4D to be able to use Accumulo as a source and target data source for Information Governance, Data Science, Virtualization, and AI functionality (All of CP4D)
almost 6 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Add option to use FTPS protocol in FTP Enterprise Stage in DataStage parallel jobs

Add option to use FTPS protocol in FTP Enterprise Stage in DataStage parallel jobs. Datastage only is allowed sftp and ftp protocols for long time.
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Support for a Jira connector

A Public/Federal customer requires a built-in Jira connector for the on-prem Cloud Pak for Data platform. The Jira connector is requested in support of migrating 8 application workloads onto the platform. Eight distinct use cases can be migrated o...
about 2 years ago in Connectivity 1 Under review

Redshift connector slow in IIS DataStage for Insert/Update

We have a use case in which we need to process records from IIS DataStage into an aws Redshift instance. When using the stage as currently implemented, we're seeing a throughput that averages 2-6 records a second which is far below the acceptable ...
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 3 Planned for future release

Enable renaming input/output links of a hierachical stage

Currently it is impossible to rename the input/output links of a Hierarchical stage without putting the assembly in an invalid state See Case: TS000177036
over 7 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration