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Allow user to specify a fixed project ID when creating a project

Allow users to pre-define the project ID in a specified and tracked way. This would prevent projects from getting created with random sequences of characters every time and allow for a more centralized method of tracking.
6 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Manta COBOL lineage should show paragraph name instead of MOVE statements

Background During lineage validation, we found that for technical users MOVE statements do not add any value to data lineage. Instead, PARA names are more meaningful than having the MOVE statement in the data lineage. It helps them to quickly rela...
6 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Cognos Utility tool "CM Tool" should be work with OIDC configuration (for MFA) to recover the Framework Models from Content Store

After Implementing Multi-Factor Authentication (OIDC) in Cognos Analytics, Cognos "CM Tool" is not working. Before MFA, our Cognos Analytics is configured with Windows AD authentication and CM tool was worked fine with Winodws AD. After we discuss...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Reorg Shrlevel CHANGE for Tables with Index on Expression Index

Currently a REORG shrlevel CHANGE is not possible on UTS tablespaces which have an expression Index (Index on Expression) defined to them. the message below gets issued: DSNU076I DSNURFIT - KEYWORD=SHRLEVEL CHANGE INVALID FOR EXPRESSION-BASED INDE...
12 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics: Upgrade PDF version of generated reports

Cognos Analytics generates PDF version 1.4 by default. Customer is trying to digitally sign this PDF using a third party application and it requires PDF version to be at least 1.5 or higher. Is there any way to upgrade PDF version of reports gener...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Force LOAD COPY location with HADR

LOAD COPY files can go anywhere, but when running HADR, they should only go to a shared location. If they do not, then the tables on the standby will be unavailable on failover. Those doing LOADs may not know or understand the impact of this. Ther...
about 10 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Drop down list with search option prompt in Cognos Analytics

We have installed Cognos 11.1.7 FP2 and our customers want to have the following prompt type in their report: drop down list with CustomerIDs with the possibility to search for a value in the list (using copy+paste option to search for a CustomerI...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Eliminate x-locks on CREATE INDEX DEFER YES to improve concurrency

This is similar to DB24ZOS-I-1114 and DB24ZOS-I-1689. When attempting to create an index with CREATE INDEX DEFER YES, there should be no need to lock packages that are dependent on the table. Requiring an x-lock doesn't seem necessary. With phase-...
12 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Need configuration option to force uniqueness across all users within a CPD instance

Need configuration option to force uniqueness across all users within a CPD instance (account tenancy boundary respected) to create a project all time with a unique name. if the project any project name is already exist UI shouldn't be allow to cr...
12 months ago in watsonx.ai 1 Under review

Users other than the creator of the skill need to be able to enhance the skill

In a large operation, creation and maintenance of skills is performed by a team, not an individual and this requires that multiple users be able to enhance (edit) a skill. Currently, only the creator of the skill can enhance it. Authentication for...
9 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration