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In a specific project under Data Assets, users should be able to see their collections which they have created. Currently they only see indexes.

In a specific project under Data Assets, users should be able to see their collections which they have created. Currently they only see indexes.
3 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

There is no RBAC on collections. Anyone can see anyone's collection and operate on it

Users should be able to see only collections that they have created
3 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Ability to turn off the 'Submission deadlines' view/tile from Controller Web 'Home' page

Some larger customers have expressed a wish to have the ability to turn off the 'Submission deadlines' view in Controller Web, as their deadlines are set per company/group of companies, per period and actuality, so would rather not have that view ...
3 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Adding more legends icons in IBM PAW - Conditional formating instead of simple Green, Amber and Red icons

In current PAW conditional formating, we have only 3 conditional icons i.e. Green, Amber and Red. We should have more icons so that we can use this feature extenstively for highlighting the data impact at cell level and create more intituive use e...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Unable to add individual users to Data Source Definition(DSD) even the users are part of the group in Platform asset catalog

The individual user cannot be added to DSD's in associated catalogs even though the user is a member of group in platform asset catalog. First, the user has to be added to the catalog as a individual user even the user is a member of the group in ...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

There is no method to quickly get the "minimum recovery time" of a backup image

It is not possible to get the "minimum recovery time" of a backup image without first restoring the image or by using 'db2ckbkp -l' but it is also too long as it has to read the entire backup image (this can be long if the image is stored on TSM /...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

New MDM and Datastage releases available on RHEL 9.x on Power

Customer is currently running on X86 are InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM) v11.6/v12 & InfoSphere Information Server (IIS) v11.7. It is expected that MDM on RHEL 9 will be announced early 2024 and in order to have a chance at this winbac...
over 2 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Not able to add data sets to Job or Event Studio

Unlike reports/jobs, data sets do not allow to be added to jobs. So also data sets do not allow to be scheduled using Event Studio. Please provide the functionality, or an alternate option (other than time/trigger based scheduling). Case number re...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Inplace Reorg should be allowed on a table with an Expression Based Index

Expression Based Indexes (available since V10.5) are a great feature that can improve query performance without adding a new (generated) column and modifying existing code. But, you cannot do an Inplace Reorg on a table with an Expression Based In...
about 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

use a data module in Event studio

IBM Cognos Event Studio works with source items that were defined in an IBM Cognos Framework Manager model and published as a package. We need that IBM Cognos Event Studio works also with Data Modules.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration