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Configure Waston Assistant extension timeout

Watson Assistant custom extensions (specified with an OpenAPI json file) timeout after 30 seconds. It would be nice to configure a longer timeout, at least if WA is running on on-prem hardware instead of IBM's cloud service.
16 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

RDS Versioning

Hi, We have a requirement on RDS to track and manage the versions based on the following: - Every change to a value or code creates a new version of that reference dataset. - Effective start and end dates of the change - No deletion of previous ve...
17 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

zIIP Eligible Q-APPLY

Currently the SQL Queries in QREP Apply are CPU-intensive. The CPU cost of those queries cost more than our top 5 application programs combined. We recommend to make Q APPLY Queries zIIP eligible to reduce the CPU cost for QREP APPLY.

Increase available number of global job ids for LSF

Current job id is limited to 32b. With ever growing number of jobs and scaling of multi-cluster use, the job id should be extended beyond 32b to avoid frequent rollover situations and/or cases of redundant ids. Recommend to increase to 64b or more.
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Under review

Expose PAW User Administration Logs for PAoC

Please enable visibility into the action/actor/operation/status for user update activities performed within PAW for Planning Analytics on Cloud environments and enable the 'actor' to be associated with the actual user making updates/changes. Curre...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Make IFI process zIIP eligible

With more and more data being replicated off host, the replication tasks are increasingly using more and more CPU to read the logs. Allowing the IFI read process to be zIIP eligible would help reduce our general purpose CPU consumption. This would...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Needs more information

Scrollable Area Height & Width Property for Crosstabs, ie Freeze Row/Column Headers

The list data container has a property for Scrollable Area Height. The freezes the column headers and allows the user to scroll throught the data with the column headers staying visible. This functionality works in interactive and classic report v...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted
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Ability to set size for Search & Select Prompt

By default the Select and Search prompt is a fixed size which makes it difficult for us to layout other components on our prompt page that align with this S&S component. Also, with its fixed size, it makes it difficult for us to render the pag...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

UTILITY wait for other Utility

Consider a Utility A executing on an Db2-object (example LOAD) and another incompatible Utility B trying to acquire drain on the same Db2-object (example QUIESCE). Db2 immediately rejects this Utility B, without waiting. We suggest a new Utility o...
12 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

External Table USING Options

Need to be able to create external table objects using all the "USING" options when writing to the file. The best example is that (VAR)CHAR type objects need to be written with "quoted" values (e.g., 'ABC",'DEF' written to the file instead of ABC,...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review