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GenAI assistant to talk with ADDI

It would be great if we could interact with all the data that ADDI has using a GenAI like assistant, so It would be like asking the most senior developer/product owner about all the components that addi discovers.
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Audit table for datasets

Want to be able to monitor dataset growth/decline of time. e.g. -size -number of rows -number of columns
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

For sysprocplan add ability to view the plan

For sysprocplan add ability to view the plan. This would allow more visibility into how plans change when they do change.
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

Add object names to onstat -k output

Add object names to onstat -k output this should include partition part name where apropriate.
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

Enhance SQLCODE SQL3015N details

When we receive the following error message (during LOAD): SQL3015N An SQL error "-551" occurred during processing. we only know, that it is an authorization issue. The detail information (authorization-id, operation, object-name) are not availabl...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Future consideration

Expand IFCID 258 to include the last available partition (based on MAXPARTITIONS) of a partitioned table spaces.

IBM already produces IFCID 258 when an extent is taken. Would IBM may consider the expansion into the last available partition to be a noteworthy event or either inform the MAXPARTITION value. So, the percentage of available partitions can be calc...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Improve INDOUBT thread processing in two-phase commit scenario

Recently we had a pretty severe production outage on an 8-way data sharing group. After resolution of the root cause, WAS and Db2 z were quite slow in recovery. Following the crash, there were dozens of indoubt threads and lots of retained locks a...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Support lineage for Data Modules

I was surprised to find that data lineage is not supported for data modules when this is one of the key differentiators in the market for Cognos. Please consider to add lineage support for data modules asap.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

help in the cleaning of package versions

We'd like to have a new ZPARM to limit the max number of version for packages. Once this number is reached a new version replaces the older one. Otherwise a COMMAND like MODIFY to facilitate DBA in housecleaning
about 6 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Database sends (DBS) should fail

In Pafe when a user executes a DBS against a cell which is not writeable the formula returns the value of the cell. Not writeable means C level, read-only access, write access but locked. This is counter productive, the job of the formula is to...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 7 Not under consideration