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Provide a proper dashboard to view watsonx.ai pipeline executions and status.

IBM Pipelines do not provide any pipeline monitoring similar to airflow. See https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/stable/ui.html#grid-view
3 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Improve Dev>Prod Deployment Process between projects

There is no efficient way to do dev>prod deployments in CPDAAS. We need the FULL connection asset to be able to be parameterized, including the SSL box. On 11.7, we are able to use Server Manager to easily deploy updated assets to our productio...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Implementing setting Forbid the orphans (false/true)

Since current version (IBM OpenPages on Cloud) doesn't prevent creation of orphan object from being removed from their only parent in order to consistently ensure data integrity it is suggested to implement System setting called Forbid the orphans...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

Support for Bit type from MS SQL Server

We use a Bit field as a boolean to indicate if a record is the current record for our customer. Currently, it is not supported and requires casting to another type.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

External Tables support on Windows

I went to use this marvelous feature on windows.. and for my surprise external tables are not implemented for this platform :-( (v11.5) Why ? Please, add support for external tables usage on windows hosts as well .
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Future consideration

Multiple SDU models per Collection

in my domain of business, clients put different kind and format of documents in the same collection. We need the possibility to have multiple SDU models in the same collection. Every SDU model get applied to a specific set of files identified by a...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Not under consideration

add SPACENAM in DISPLAY BLOCKERS command

PTF UI69433 introduces a new command DISPLAY BLOCKERS which is wonderful because it provides rich information of locks and claimers. The only draw back is it does not have SPACENAM option to narrow down the output.
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Avoid locking table at the start of a refresh

Currently DB2 z/OS Remote agent will try to lock a table, apparently to obtain the head of logs position, just before starting a table refresh. Although the lock is immediately released, in some customer environments it very hard to obtain this lo...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Data Modules - generate minimized SQL

Reports and Dashboards that are based on data modules should always generate minimized/optimized SQL, also in cases where a filter is applied at the query subject in the data module, like below: Example: select * from table1 where unit = <sessi...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Import/Export Data Module json specification in Data Module editor

For some use cases it would be beneficial to be able to import and export the Data Module specification not only via REST API but within the Data Module editor: professional modelers can generate their Data Module specifications in external tools,...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Future consideration