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Setting up the “Run in the Background” as default option at user level

Most of our customers are using “Run in the Background” option for long running reports. They will be okay to use this option however the user has to explicitly set this option every time they run the report which they want to avoid, and it would ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add option to set explain on to see what the optimizer is doing.

Add option to set explain on to see what the optimizer is doing. - Which statistics were looked at - Relative costs for table scan/index usage - Why a given index is not used - Which join orders are considered - Why join orders are excluded from t...
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Add fixed and relative values to baseline visualization

While building dashboards, it's common to have to see the baseline of a graph (lines or bars). This feature already exists in report studio (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.0.0?topic=properties-baselines)
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

WCA4Z to support ASSEMBLER language

Lot of mainframe applications are written in ASSEMBLER language. Clients are interested in modernizing those applications.
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

API to automate webcrawl in Watson Discovery

Please make an API available in Discovery v2 where you specify a web crawl configuration with URLs programmatically. Defining the maximum links is good but how can i be sure if crawls all the sites that i want it to.
12 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Optimizer does not use HIGH2KEY/LOW2KEY for columns with COLCARD 1

Optimization issue if a business_time_oriented table has only one row. In syscat.columns the content of the business_time columns are detected (high2key, low2key) but the value can not be found in the distribution statistics. This leads default fi...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Future consideration

filter specific IDAA messages from being delivered to DB2.

All IDAA messages, once delivered to DB2, are wrapped in a DSNX881I message ID and displayed within DB2 and on the z/OS logs. In our case there was a VERY lengthy message of type /W3005/ which is delivered to us no less than 15 times a day for eac...
11 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace Backup and Restore created reports

Export a lifecycle management asset from PAW to backup our more than 3000 reports somewhere and restore if required. We had an end user that has lost a report/view in personal folder which we could not restore. The end user needed to re-create the...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

We will like to see some automated way to change just the IP when we failover to our disaster recovery site instead of making it a manual process on the Admin Console

We have automated the changes we do on our disaster recovery site by submitting batch jobs to alter the ALIAS for InSync once the DB2's start. Since the private Network does not change and we recover via GDPS the accelerator connects with no issue...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Watsonx Pipelines should provide higher level DSL for creating Pipelines programmatically

Currently Watsonx Pipelines provide an API for managing Pipelines as described under https://pipelines-api.s3-web.eu-de.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud/#model-pipelineJson However that API seems very tied to the UI and the payload needed to c...
2 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review