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Support .TXT files for text extraction

In the overall messaging of watsonx.data Premium for unstructured data, we discuss ingestion of various unstructured documents, which includes word/PPT/PDF and .TXT files. From a unstructured data integration standpoint, .TXT files can be ingested...
about 21 hours ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Early release of GUI development capabilities in wxO

Currently, GUI-based development in wxO has many limitations and remains heavily dependent on ADK. Strengthening GUI development capabilities would make scale-out much easier and greatly enhance feasibility for large-scale project deployments. The...
2 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

SQL function LAG (and other passthrough OLAP functions) – implement natively Db2 Z !

SQL function LAG (and other passthrough OLAP functions) – implement natively Db2 Z ! Db2 Z provides some OLAP functions that are only available as passthrough functions that are only available via an “accelerator” https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-f...
3 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Submitted

Industry Accelerator "SAP": Proactive Enhancement of IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC) and watsonx.data for German SAP Customers and SAP BW Migrations

To maintain and grow IBM’s relevance in the SAP ecosystem—especially for German-speaking customers—we must proactively enhance our catalog and metadata solutions (IKC and watsonx.data) to deeply support German language, SAP-specific metadata, and ...
4 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Add support in Db2 to disable GSKit session cache using GSK_V2_SIDCACHE_SIZE and GSK_V3_SIDCACHE_SIZE

Db2 currently uses GSKit for cryptographic and TLS operations, and the GSKit session cache is enabled by default. While GSKit itself allows disabling the session cache by setting environment variables such as GSK_V3_SIDCACHE_SIZE=0, Db2 does not h...
2 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Under review

On-Behalf-Of Flow for IBM Planning Analytics

At the moment for IBM Planning Analytics v12, we have the following limitaitons: It does not support SSO. It does not support CAM. Therefore when we want to connect IBM PA to WxO, or WxBI, it's more a personal thing, meaning every users need...
5 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Using a Custom Root Certificate for Secure Db2U for OLTP Instance Creation in CP4D

The customer would like to request that the platform provide official support for security certificate customization for Db2U for OLTP and Db2Wh running on CP4D, either by: Allowing customization via injection in the Db2U for OLTP or Db2Wh CR yaml...
16 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 2 Under review

Export global search list result

Using the Global Search function on the homepage, we would like to be able to export the data list result. In fact, actually is not possible to extract and download the result list.
about 13 hours ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 0 Submitted

Being able to default when running a report ad hoc and sending the results by email to 'Attach report output' instead of 'Include link'.

There are scenarios when the user would like a report output sent to them by email instead of a link. It would be helpful if this could be a default option instead of having to manually update this everytime a report is run. It used to default or ...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Improve usability of CodeBlock creation in GUI Tool flow

When writing a CodeBlock in the Tool flow through the GUI, it is difficult to know the correct syntax. For example, a declaration such as @tool(name="") is required, but this is not obvious to users. It would be very helpful to display sample code...
2 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted