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New Function UNHEX

New Function UNHEX (name subject to change/negotiation) We have a system where all CHAR columns are defined FOR BIT DATA. It seemed genius at the time to save a few bytes of data, not realizing the negative impact in future maintainability and in ...
30 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

IKC workflow mail notifications fine-tuning

If user is receiving lots of notifications from workflows, it would be good to have a bit more convenient e-mail content. Now when the e-mail notifications are created, the subject line basically says "Notification: Your task is completed" or some...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

[GOV] ICP4D v.4.8.5 PROD Env (MDI) - Need option to skip asset/column description while publishing the project assets to catalog.

MDI Scan: Column description overwrites description in Catalog. Issue replication: Table and column description created through hydration job is being replaced after MDI Scan and publish in WKC "GCP for marketplace catalog". Expectation: Stop over...
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

Ability for client to ingest Industry standards into IKC to accelerate standards utilsation in their Data Governance usecases

As discussed in 23rd Oct 2024 - slack DM between Pat O'Sullivan, Michael Loughran, Michael Szylar, Paul Kilroy, Anna Arato Area of ingesting Industry standards into IKC, well demonstrated by client use case in the 'Business Impact Statement' secti...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Allow persistent subscriptions to reconnect when there has been a recoverable database connection error

We have been receiving SQL connection error messages on our DB2 LUW source instances that include the text: "SQLSTATE 08506: A connection failed but has been re-established.". Support has indicated that this is functioning as designed and persiste...
3 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Larger program limits must be supported by the Refactoring Assistant component.

We are unable to proceed with the POC because of this RA size restriction. This enhancement would benefit the client and CE. The Refactoring assistant is encountering an error when loading a program with ~1200 paragraphs. The error: IAYSD0023E A p...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

for loadSched memory if the submitted job has memory reservation the job should not be run if the nodes mem used + job memory reservation > loadSched memory limit

because users want to keep a certain amount of memory free. And currently the limit can be bypassed.
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Under review

Enhance Category Selection for Metadata Enrichment by adding an option to choose between using only Primary categories or including Secondary categories.

This enhancement would provide users with the flexibility to select whether to include only Primary categories or to expand their selection to include Secondary categories when identifying Data Classes or Business Terms for analysis. By offering t...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Enable the ability to select data assets in the CP4D project based on the chosen connection.

Enable the ability to select data assets in the CP4D project based on the chosen connection. Currently, there is no direct way to manage data assets by filtering them through a specific connection. Adding this feature would provide users with more...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Add a feature to assign data classes based on the assigned business term, with the option to choose the behavior of data class assignment.

This enhancement would involve reconfiguring the data class assignment service to operate based on the business term assigned to each asset. Users should have the flexibility to select how data classes are assigned: either following the default be...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

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