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Prompt to confirm the Takeover

In certain scenarios a Tablespace wouldn't have a NORMAL state at the Standby database. Depending on how important is that Tablespace and if it would be easily get back to NORMAL state or not, the user could decide to decline the Takeover. A table...
2 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 2 Needs more information

DSN-Command -STA PROFILE GROUP

DSN-Profiles are managed using catalog tables DSN_PROFILE_TABLE and DSN_PROFILE_ATTRIBUTES, but are not automatically activated upon insert / update. Instead a DSN-command -STA PROFILE must be executed. In a Db2 datasharing system, I can only have...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Complete PROFILE support for SQL tuning ZPARMS

While modelling a production system it was noticed that the PROFILE support is not 100% up to date and compatible with the actual ZPARMs that the Db2 Optimizer uses. I opened a case TS019778440 and they said "Yes, it is missing, please open an AHA...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Native Version Control Capabilities for AI Agents

Introduce native version control capabilities for AI agents in watsonx Orchestrate. This feature would allow users to create, tag, and manage multiple versions of the same agent—enabling safer deployments, rollback to previous versions, and tracea...
5 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Planned for future release

Improving the saved search functionality in Watson Discovery Content Miner to better support usability for larger user groups

Background: In our organization, we anticipate that approximately 100 users will be actively actively working with the Watson Discovery Content Mining application. Each user is expected to create and maintain around 2 saved searches, resulting in ...
4 months ago in Watson Discovery 1 Submitted

Please correct to execute a complete search if the primary key of IMS-DB is specified in || (concatination).

When executing SQL, a complete search is not performed but a search of all counts is performed if the primary key of IMS-DB is specified in || (concatination). This is poor performance to use DVM.Please correct to execute a complete search even if...
5 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

Add limit for multi choice filters

In order to allow Cognos (integrated in OpenPages) to elaborate reports' queries, we ask to add a blocking message when too many items are selected. We would prefer a dynamic message: if not possible, a fixed cap would also be acceptable. We ask t...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas 2 Under review

Custom widgets on BAI for saving column sorting

Despite being able to select the order of the columns for a report, this sorting is not saved and the customers need to redo it every time they need to check the report. Having a way to save this sorting would help the customers to just consume th...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation as a Service 0 Submitted

Create an option to configure the user timezone

BAI uses the customer device timezone. However, when working integrated with BAW it seems that this timezone configuration is lost on BAI, therefore having a way to set this on the product end would benefit customers that can't change their device...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation as a Service 0 Submitted

Assume IAM Role instead of using IAM Access Key and Secret (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client, Itaú, follows a strict security policy based on the principle of least privilege, which requires all authentication and authorization operations to be carried out through IAM Roles, rather than using IAM Access Key and Secret pairs, wh...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review