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DQ Uniqueness Check during MDE by Specifying PKs on UI

We'd like to have an out of the box uniqueness DQ check (for metadata enrichment) to validate the primary key (may be composite) marked by the user when enriching the data asset.
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Needs more information

implement "select all" for Assets list in a IKC

Similarly to an option to select all assets imported by metadata import job into a catalog, add the same functionallity when working with IKC directly using UI. This will allow to do bulk delete for example. Catalog easily has 10s or 100s thousand...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

Online.log could also print session detail of additional memory segment allocation

In high usage OLTP systems, it is a hard work to identify which session(s) is(are) demanding too much memory from the Informix engine.A good thing for us to help to identify abnormal programs execution/behaviour would be to print session details (...
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Needs more information

Auto-Assignment of Data Owner/Steward to Business Terms Based on Category

When a Data Owner or Steward is assigned to a Business Term Category, we would like that assignment to automatically propagate to all Business Terms under that category. This would significantly reduce manual overhead for governance roles.
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

(Automatic) Test generation from COBOL code

e.g. generation of test cases out of COBOL code for full reliability
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Needs more information

Explainability of generated Java code

it's crucial to understand the rationale behind the generated Java code including but not restricting to the reference of Cobol code lines
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Needs more information

Support for Complex File Formats in Manta Lineage

So the idea here is to augment the Filesystem flow model and introduce the notion of file section by adding the notion of file section but make it optional. This means that a given customer could choose to model file with sections or a file withou...
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 5 Needs more information

Targeted Object Analysis

Currently if we want to find if a table,Index,Database etc are access by any DB2 threads or not then we have capture info on all Authids in a subsystem and then filter on the captured info to see if the object is used or not In a CPU constraint en...
6 months ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Needs more information

Extensive Quota Management System

Absence of this is already causing outages in production.
6 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Needs more information

Customizability for Views and Filtering on Governance Artifact Sections and Catalog Overview Pages

From the catalog overview page or from governance artifact pages like the ones that list the business terms, classifications, etc., we want a way for a user to be able to customize what metadata fields they see. They should be able to choose from ...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Needs more information