Thanks Paul,
I can't tell you how relieved I am to hear your news. I would like to provide feedback here for if and when you do decide to deprecate Secure Gateway.
1. It offers no immediate value to our business users. Accessing a data lake on another cloud directly may be meaningful, but it is not a pressing issue to them right now. They would much rather we spend our time enhancing the application to support more of their business requirements. In their mind, if it ain't broke, why are we fixing it.
2. I hope you won't announce availability in March with a forced suspension of use in November. We have to overcome substantial organizational inertia to get highly complex technical things done. In addition, November is peak budgeting support month for us. So from first availability to forced cutover deadline date needs to be about a 2 year window.
3. Under the plan described, in our case, you would be forcing a Windows centric IT shop to have to hire RHEL7 experience to support and manage this environment. There will be considerable criticism that this is good for IBM, but not for our company.
4. I agree with Paul Simon, I would much prefer that you spend your resources figuring out how to synchronize selection filters between on page views in PAW with the TI run buttons on the same page.
Gary
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Gary Smith
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Original Message:
Sent: Tue March 23, 2021 08:26 AM
From: Paulo Monte
Subject: Secure Gateway deprecation
Hi All,
The deprecation is for customers of the IBM Cloud Catalog.
Planning Analytics customers get access to Secure Gateway directly from Planning Analytics, and not from making purchases on the IBM Cloud Catalog.
The Planning Analytics team is actively working on a replacement and migration path, and we will update everyone in the near future.
For now, Planning Analytics is still sold with Secure Gateway embedded as a part of the service, and customers can continue to use it, and deploy with it.
Regards,
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Paulo Monte
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