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Allow the currentPackageSet property for insert buffering to be set in platform connections for DB2WH & DB2 to leverage performance improvements.

During Performance Load Testing with Db2Wh Gen3 LMCO noticed major performance improvements when enabling Db2 server side Insert Buffering :https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-enable-db2-server-side-insert-buffering-jdbc-type-4-applications But ...
10 months ago in Connectivity 1 Under review

xsd files being flagged for having value set as 'unbounded'

xsd files being flagged for having value set as 'unbounded' Please refer to case TS019607811 Our bank code adheres to usual code scan tools that flag any security or vulnerabilities within code or configuration. As part of routine code promotion j...
5 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Submitted

location property exposed in bigquery connector

Is it possibile to consider exposing the location property in the bigquery connector such that a default location can be forced CP4D side? Executing jobs that use the statements SELECT FROM EXTERNAL TABLE while the bigquery database is located in ...
11 months ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

Visual C++ 2013 EOS

TS016714232 We've noticed that Visual C++ 2013 is a built-in component in Symphony package. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.0?topic=configurations-software-included-spectrum-symphony This has been EOS just since April 2024. So wh...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Future consideration

Request to add AArch64/ARM64 to Spectrum Symphony version 7.3.2 or a future release.

Request to add ARM/AArch64 to Spectrum Symphony version 7.3.2 or a future release. Required for power-efficiency and cost reduction. Required to provided by EOY 2024 to Q12025. Output from /proc/cpuinfo for processor info: For processor 0 to 128 p...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Under review

JDBC connection with Kerberos not working

Unable to establish a JDBC connection from Windows using Kerberos authentication. Windows is supported and so is Kerberos so this should be working. IBM code doesn't take into account using API as ccache or MSLSA with credential guard. That is a c...
11 months ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

DataStage MQ Connector does not support use of the userid and password under UNIX

We are trying to configure MQ Connector to connect to MQ Server using userid and password. Connection fails with "2035 MQRC_NOT_AUTHORIZED". Connection works only without authentication. PMR confirmed we need to submit enhancement request to add n...
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Skip the zombie service instances when terminating ego service after having signaled and waited for a configurable time interval

Our observation, as it takes us forever to complete the termination of an ego service with zombie processes. Symphony termination action stuck with the ego service instance process tree when there is a zombie process exist. The only way of workaro...
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Snowflake Connector Error handling

1) We encountered an issue while using the insert or update option. The continue on error option does not work and the job fails if it encounters bad data. We opened a case with IBM. There is no reject capture mechanism. Workaround: Two step solut...
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 6 Not under consideration

Enhancement DB2 Connector Stage for Clientuser attributes

An extension is required in the <DB2 Connector Stage> GUI so that the default parameters for Client userid Client Wrkstnname Client applname Client Acctng that are transferred to the Db2 WLM can be overwritten on a customer-specific basis. T...
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Future consideration