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Support reading a CLOB field at least from DB2

Currently we have to cast a CLOB field as VARCHAR in order to read it into modeler from a DB2 source, and then we only get the first N characters. Please support reading entire CLOB as a string of size at least 256K characters or preferably more o...
3 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Under review

Re-usable Supernodes -- multiple instances of same one can occur in stream but modifying it immediately modifies all instances. Like a callable Function/Subroutine/Macro in programming languages.

Often we want to perform the same set of operations ("sub-flow") in multiple places in the stream, e.g. for similar/parallel data either from different data sources, or destined for different output or export nodes. It is essential that the *same*...
3 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Under review

Cognos consuming separated database

It Should be interesting to make Cognos a possibility to consume a copy of the main database so it not conflicts with the openpages application that consumes the same database Therefore, large Cognos reports could not degrade the Openpages applica...
5 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Under review

Do not display field guidance in "i" Icon for the view in which field is not display even if it is added

Do not display field guidance in "i" Icon for the view in which field is not display even if it is added. If I added field ABC and if it si hidden on the view because of some visibility condition, still its field guidance is display in "i" icon of...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Orchestration Pipeline supports Grid View UI capability

Currently one can access a Pipeline historical job runs in a list like fashion, i.e jobs are listed historically, in order to view the status for each node/task in the pipeline one has to click/navigate into the particular job run,one of the capab...
3 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Orchestration Pipeline should allow users to automate retrying execution on failed node during pipeline job execution

Currently there is no way to 'continue/trigger' a task execution as part of a job which ran but say failed on a certain task; here is the scenario: assume pipeline has following structure: [node1] -> [node2] -> [node3] -> [node4] in case ...
3 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Null Handling with CDC live audit setup

Problem Statement: In our current CDC setup tables are mapped with Live audit where supplementary logging is enabled only on primary key columns and for other columns supplementary logging is not enabled. And hence we cannot differentiate between ...
5 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Allow default Parent Business Entity value be set in registry

In our current solution end users are required to do an extra step of selecting a Parent Business Entity when creating a new (GRC) entry. I understand why the Business entity exists and appreciate the usefullness of this capability. In our case th...
5 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Support additional CKEditor core functions in OpenPages

I have compared CKEditor core functionality vs what is currently enabled in OpenPages v 9.0.0.2 We would like to request the following very useful features be supported by CKEditor in OpenPages. The table support in particular is lacking. It's gre...
5 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Workflow documentation from the platform

For documentation and review purposes, it would be useful automatically generate end-user readable documentation for the workflows in Excel/Word. Ideally this would also enable a delta to the last published version to be able to see what was changed.
5 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Under review