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Add consumption metrics (CUH/Tokens) at Project/Space level to SW version as there is on SaaS

Request: Add support for multi-tenant usage tracking in the SW (on-prem) version, aligned with the usage-based metering we support on SaaS. Currently the SW tracks by GB of RAM, # GPUs and vCPUs, but it lacks: Token/CUH tracking per project/space....
5 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 5 Under review

Support integration for watsonx.ai SaaS on AWS

Support for integrating with watsonx.ai SaaS deployed on AWS, as it uses a different authentication mechanism compared to watsonx.ai on IBM Cloud. The current integration assumes IBM Cloud authentication, which is not compatible with the AWS deplo...
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Under review

Add STMT_HASHID2 in IFCID 316

Can you add STMT_HASHID2 (referred in DSN_STATEMENT_CACHE_TABLE) field to the IFCID 316 record? It would be very handy in identifying normalized SQL statement text(s).
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Using a Custom Root Certificate for Secure Db2U for OLTP Instance Creation in CP4D

The customer would like to request that the platform provide official support for security certificate customization for Db2U for OLTP and Db2Wh running on CP4D, either by: Allowing customization via injection in the Db2U for OLTP or Db2Wh CR yaml...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 2 Under review

Identifying Real Users When Using a Service Account API Key

Currently, when using a service account API key, all threads are created under the "service account user," which prevents distinguishing the actual end user who initiated each thread. We propose adding support for passing user identification metad...
25 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Enable discard reorganizations on catalog history tables.

Enabling historization for certain catalog tables can result in very large tables that can be difficult to purge, particularly if they are in LOCKSIZE ROW and without LOCK ESCALATION, as is the case, for example, with the SYSIBM.SYSTABSPACESTATS_H...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Reset the DSC counters when doing EXPLAIN STMTCACHE ALL

We are running IFCID 318 and externalize the Dynamic Statement Cache regularly to DSN_STATEMENT_CACHE_TABLE. For ease of use, we reset the counter by doing STOP and START of the IFCID 318 as described in the manual. The time from EXPLAIN STMTCACHE...
4 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

WCA4Z Explanation should display error messages when using translation to native language

WCA4Z Explanation displays errors when the generation of the explanation fails, for example if a call to the API "/explanation/PL1?level=SIMPLE" fails with the error: "stop_reason":"max_tokens". However, no error is displayed if the error happens ...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 5 Under review

Custom Enrichment Objective

Allow a custom enrichment objective (example from a notebook job or other process data asset) that allows the enrichment of custom attributes, which can either be pre-defined at design time or created dynamically at runtime during the enrichment p...
26 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

OpenTelemetry

Please develop an OpenTelemetry Interface for DB2, so that at least on a top level, DB calls can be traced. Ideally, it could be brokwn down to more detail.
11 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review