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The installation panel does not show the accelerator name

The name of the accelerator shows in the “upload, validate and apply” section and it is on the second page. It would be nice to see the accelerators name on the top of the panel.
10 days ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Submitted

IDAA installation panel lists ipaddresses and userid and password. - does not validate ipaddress

One of the IDAA installation panel list ipaddresses and userid and password. - it seems like the UI validates the useid and password, but does not validate ipaddress. And by mistake if you put in the wrong ip address (browser auto populates the ip...
10 days ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Submitted

Detailed dataset flow diagram

ADDI or WCA4Z Understand need more detailed dataset flow diagram and linking to source feature to win customer.What customer expected to ADDI was that in addition to visualizations like the attached detailed dataflow diagram with information of pr...

Request for an improvement to Passticket authentication to use Ticket Enhanced instead of Legacy.

We have IDAA v7 and z/OS v3.1 installed. To connect to z/OS, we currently use a legacy ticket, as recommended in the documentation. However, our security team has indicated that, starting with z/OS v2.5, legacy tickets are deprecated and we must u...
16 days ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enable WCA4Z to install and operate without GPU requirements for non-LLM use cases and troubleshooting scenarios.

WCA4Z currently has a hard dependency on GPU availability. The Watsonxaiifm component fails to install when GPUs are not present, which subsequently prevents a complete installation of WCABase and WCA4Z. GPU resources represent a substantial infra...
26 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

ADDI Job Flow: Step/PROC Node Click Should Navigate to Source Code Like Job Name Does

In ADDI, when testing Job Flow visualization, clicking the Job Name at the top correctly opens the corresponding JCL source. However, when clicking on a Step name or PROC name within the Job Flow diagram, ADDI does not bring up the associated code...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

Db2 for z/OS – InSync: make the LogReaderTask commit interval configurable

In replication scenarios with Integrated Synchronization (InSync) (Db2 Analytics Accelerator / Data Gate), LogReaderTask needs to access compression dictionaries to decompress log records. In contention situations, this can result in decompression...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Under review

The PL/I macro names should be referable in WCA4Z Understand

When preprocessing PL/I source code in WCA4Z Understand(ADDI), macros are visualized in their expanded state, which makes it impossible to identify the original macro names in Application Discovery (AD)Analyze Client. To improve usability for appl...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Db2 Analytics Accelerator should be catching up changes dynamically on status of HW resources(NVME,OSA,ROCE,Ficon) over LinuxONE when resource come back online after toggle operation.

For LinuxONE systems, MCL or failure of some HW parts sometimes leads us to toggle operation to be able to fix or enable HW resources. What we have noticed is when HW resources (NVME,OSA,ROCE,Ficon) toggled offline over LinuxONE, Db2 Analytics Acc...
about 2 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Under review

Extend watsonx Code Assistant for Z – Optimize to support PL/I performance analysis and optimization.

Many enterprise z/OS customers still run important workloads in PL/I, especially in banking and insurance. Today Optimize works well for COBOL, but PL/I is not supported, so teams still rely on manual analysis or a few experienced PL/I experts to ...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 9 Under review