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Sub Grouping in Custom metrics

Currently custom metric don't support sub grouping of metrics the way out of the box metrics support. For e.g in out of the box metrics, all rouge scores are grouped under one subgroup. Can similar capability be provided for custom metrics where u...
10 months ago in watsonx.governance 0 Submitted

Create Data Sets from List Report

Current Data Set creation interface is limited to basic filters. This limits its use cases relatively static data that requires manual reprompting.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

XPS provides a dot notation for COSERVERS, this is blocked under IDS which means a change from XPS to IDS requires a complete application layer rebuild

Migrating from a long time out-of-support XPS system to V14 requires all the <INFORMIXSERVER>.<COSERVER> notation to be change to <INFORMIXSERVER><COSERVER> as the dot notation is not supported under IDS. As XPS is long tim...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 5 Under review

Integrated Pacemaker Monitoring & Alerting Functionality

IBM recently integrated the Pacemaker cluster manager in Db2 but the feature has no documented monitoring or alerting capabilities exhibiting best practices. Enlighten customers with Best Practice/Configuration documentation on how to setup the mo...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

COPYTOCOPY with new keyword SYSTEMPAGES(YES)

We do FlashCopy image copies by COPY utility and then a COPYTOCOPY to other media from these FlashCopies. Normally the UNLOAD utility can use these image copies generated by COPYTOCOPY, but in some cases not: as the dictionary was created by INSER...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to link Governance Rules to Data Quality Rules from Governance Rule side

Currently in IKC the mapping between Governance Rule and Data Quality rule can only be done from Data Quality rule side. This would require edit right to Data Quality Rules for business users in production which I'm not too keen to grant. So it wo...
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Planned for future release

Extend CP4D Antivirus solution to watsonx.governance

For the SOGEI customer, as already done for Cloud Pak for Data, it is necessary to implement an integration feature with a REST API antivirus managed internally by the customer, in watsonx.governance.For every chance the user has to upload assets ...
6 months ago in watsonx.governance 0 Submitted

Enhance grid-update mode in PAW to also defer recalculation after copy-paste-operation

In PAW you have an option to "defer recalculation" in the grid-update mode. This works for normal data entry and selection from picklists. However, it does not work for copy-paste operations. When users use copy-paste the exploration gets recalcul...
12 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

Parameter 'PCTFREE FOR UPDATE' in Db2 LUW similar to Db2 z/OS

in Db2 z/OS there is a 'PCTFREE FOR UPDATE' parameter. We will need a similar parameter for Db2 LUW. Background: Our datawarehouse application 'IDH' uses many Bi-Temporal tables. An update of any row in the source system will lead to the logical t...
about 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Ability to view multiple values in Tooltip of visualization

I am using a % stack column chart and have multiple measures to be shown as stacked. However, I can only show one data value in the mouse hover over (Tooltip). However, % stack column chart has various other summarization option like % of category...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Future consideration