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Track % of code generated in yaml file - automatically measuring WCA adoption

NOTE: This relates to another of my ideas, using (G) as an identifier for generated content: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/WCAST-I-297 Explanation: With a short (G) identifier for generated code, there's no indication which model was used or whether...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Under review

(G) for generated like © for copyright

Simply put, instead of: // Assisted by watsonx Code Assistant // Code generated by WCA@IBM in this programming language is not approved for use in IBM product development. def some_generated_function(data): return process(data) This: # (G) ibm-gra...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Not under consideration

Support cataloging Hive data in IBM Analytics Engine

Hive is a popular interface for querying data in the WDP. It is desirable that this data can be catalogued.
about 8 years ago in Analytics Engine 7 Not under consideration

Extend the source java version support for java version upgrades

Many of our customers are currently using Java versions 4 or 5, and in the past few years have been trying to update to versions 17 or 21. wCA only supports source versions from 6, so it is not possible to update versions 4 or 5. As the competing ...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Enterprise Java 1 Not under consideration

Adding Name of job to job page/UI

Right now in the job page, you can see the timestamp and the AppID/ JobID, but there is no information about the actual name of the job. We would like to have that information to quickly check the status without having to collect the ID's and swap...
about 1 year ago in Analytics Engine 1 Submitted

HTTP Response codes displaying for job status

Right now the HTTP response codes are returning 200's for everything about the jobs. When executing a job, when it fails or errors out we would expect to receive the proper response codes for the error, but it still only returns 200.
about 1 year ago in Analytics Engine 4 Submitted

Provide native capability to write metrics to a a standard product eg: prometheus

Platform teams wants pipeline metrics to be available to users through standard platforms such as prometheus. While can be worked around and instrumented, it should be out-of the box
about 1 year ago in StreamSets 0 Not under consideration

Provide out of box logging capability instead of having to resort to Groovy to write to log files

This would allow developers to instrument the pipeline and write key / custom logging to the log file. It could be implemented similar to how we allow creation of rules between stages
about 1 year ago in StreamSets 1 Needs more information

Password credentials should not show the password once it has been entered. This is a security risk

Customers do not feel secure if the password entered can be shown back on the screen. It should be visible during entry and then permanently starred (***) out. This is how many other UI based applications behave today. Yes, we could tell customers...
about 1 year ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Simplify expression evaluation notation and reference to variables

Currentlywe need a syntax of $ then a set of curly brackets {} and then a value. and for values, its record:value('/<the attribute>'). The above becomes very convoluted and long when you have a case statement of other long expressions. It wo...
about 1 year ago in StreamSets 1 Not under consideration