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We would like to see OTEL 1161 information added to IFCID 3 with new OTEL section added

Add new OTEL section to IFCID 3 containing SPANID / TRACEID, LUWID, and all related OTEL information
2 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Let us update the email for OPSystem account

Hi IBM Team, We have several schedulers / auto workflow start jobs that run on OpenPages and because we run this autostart workflow using System, it defaults to using the OPSystem account which will send a confirmation email if the run was success...
3 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

Support transformations for the OpenLineage Column Level Lineage dataset facet.

Why it is useful? Transformations are an integral part in any data flow representation. They comprise logic describing data, functions and process information that are vital for deriving lineage on an attribute. A field of an output in Column Leve...
7 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

Allow display type to be set for system fields:description field to Text.

The systemfields:description field is used as Title at Brewin. This is a common use of this field, as this is hardwired to appear on the My Favourites panel. Usually we want to limit the characters of a title field to around 200 characters which w...
6 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

Simplify REVOKE by REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES and RETAIN OBJECTS

1) REVOKE of old grants is complex due to many things that might not be revokable in the same revoke - if one fails the entire statement fails. Usually privileges are revoked due to a person leaving or moving into different a different role . REVO...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

FOOTPRINT : Lightweight “XS T-shirt” deployment for IKC (CP4D) – extendable to wx.data intelligence

Customers are increasingly asking for a significantly smaller footprint option for IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC). Current deployments require substantial resources, even in development or POC environments where workloads are limited and only a small...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Under review

Allow Override of Allocated Data Sets in Batch CLIST Input (DSNTIDOM) in DB2 Migration/Install

In Db2 for z/OS, the DSNTIDOM input member defines parameter values that control how the installation/migration/function‑level activation CLIST generates tailored JCL jobs and artifacts when run in batch mode. DSNTIDOM corresponds to the panel fie...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Reorg Tablespace template for version mismtach with CDC

In a test environment, it's quite common to observe a higher volume of modifications, which naturally leads to a larger data version compared to the source environment. Given this context, planning a reorganization to address such discrepancies—es...
about 2 months ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 0 Under review

Guardrails Dashboard

Introduce a comprehensive dashboards view that provides visibility into guardrails, including pass/block metrics and detailed insights for each guardrail category (e.g., violence, PII, hate, self-harm, etc.). Currently, users lack a centralized, v...
about 1 month ago in watsonx.governance 0 Under review

APCompare(warning) info when there is a autorebind

After a production issue due changing Db2 object sql path was changed, we implementing in our shop to use always APCompare(warning) . This works ok for 99% of our changes but some changes in prod that afterwards gets autorebind of packages can sti...
6 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review