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Enhance Category Export feature in UI to include also Collaborators and their Category roles

in 5.0.2 version Category export as csv file does not include Collaborators and their roles.
27 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

Command 'db2pd -reorgs index' does not show info about the progress of reorg index with 'cleanup all' or 'reclaim extents'

There is a limitation to show info with db2pd -reorgs index for command like reorg indexes all for table ... allow write access cleanup all reclaim extents. It is possibile to monitor progress of reorg offline and online but not for the above case...
8 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Under review

simplified code path for RI checking

We had an interesting discussion with the development team about this. As I already mentioned, the RI code path is quite different than the R-scan which may use one or more predicates to evaluate the qualifying rows. The main module that is drivin...
16 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Replicate a table with XML data type from IBM i (iseries AS400)

In the last few days we have had a situation in some customer with SAP on IBM i running, in which due to the characteristics of modernization of the database to adapt it for the use of new technologies, we have seen an increase in the requirement ...
10 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Synchronized Fields option when using shared field group in different objects

When you use a field group in multiple objects it would be great to have the option at the field level to check synchronized field. This would allow the data in the field of one object to be synchronized the the same field in a different object wh...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Capability to set custom property as mandatory

There are certain information which we require as mandatory metadata for the terms, rules categories and classifications. We would like to force users to fill this metadata by setting some custom properties as mandatory information.
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Lineage from SAS-grid should be able to export into Alation with correct representation

Background: SAS files are being scanned from SAS-grid (local file system or git location) and Manta is able to analyse those files to create required lineages in Manta. Now, when we try to export the lineage to Alation we are not able to get any. ...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

Add support for Db2 timestamp(12) data type in DataStage and CP4D

The Db2 data type timestamp(12) (timestamp with a precision up to 12 digits of the second) is not supported by DataStage. This data type is used and required for temporal tables in Db2 (LUW) and Db2 for z/OS. Temporal tables are a very helpful fun...
about 2 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Optimize db2advis (recommend indexes) with machine learning (ML) models

Isn’t it possible to use the data model information from machine learning (ML) also for the db2advis (recommend indexes)? The idea is, that db2advis also can use the data model to get new recommended indexes.
11 months ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Under review

Refactoring Assistant to advise where good spots are to slice COBOL applications.

A developer could be advised by the refactoring assistant what are good points to slice a COBOL program so that they safe a lot of time in analyzing the COBOL code. This will allow the developer to increase the number of modules/programs they can ...
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review