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Increase available number of global job ids for LSF

Current job id is limited to 32b. With ever growing number of jobs and scaling of multi-cluster use, the job id should be extended beyond 32b to avoid frequent rollover situations and/or cases of redundant ids. Recommend to increase to 64b or more.
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0

Schedule FAP data mart start / stop and update structure

Functionality to schedule FAP update structure and full publish ( data mart start and stop). Currently user need to regularly go to FAP client and click update structure. Case Number: TS000073673
about 8 years ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

Custom steps in remediation workflows

Possibility of including refinery jobs, datastage jobs, remote API (eg: create a Jira ticket..), ... or other integrations in one of the steps of the remediation flow.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

LDAP Authenication for HQ

Allow the option to use LDAP for HQ Authentication. Build the user name in HQ but allow it to use domain authentication. This would also allow HQ to write backups to mapped drives. See Support Case TS007408895 for further details.
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

IBM Z Common Data Provider template for the User Define SMF Record Type 249 cut by DVM

The customer is using IBM Z Common Data Provider (zCDP) to stream SMF records in real-time to their Splunk. zCDP provides policies for all the non user define SMF records, the SMF249 is a user define record, hence zCDP can't reference o it, so it ...
almost 5 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio 3 Planned for future release

Prompt Users to Change Git Repository Branch Settings when Git Project Integration Fails

Currently, if a user tries to connect a git repository through the Default Git Integration Project (or similar) and the git project integration fails because of settings on the git side (e.g., git repository branch rules, but possibly other settin...
4 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

wxO & IBM SaaS console should track, list and manage API keys made on AWS platform

On AWS, after creating a new API key, there is no way to track, list or manage the API keys. According to our documentation, "Managing the user API key - Accessing the list of API keys"https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/saas?topic=administration-...
4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Support for multiple Export Resource Mapping in Open Manta Extensions Connection

In the current setup of Manta Open Manta Extensions connections, we observe a limitation with the export configuration. The OME connection provides only One field to export Custom ETL lineage to external tools like Alation. When multiple custom ET...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Not under consideration

Allow application to decide what to do when a timeout occurs (-911 vs. -913)

In time-critical processes, it can be important to be able to react to timeout conditions in Db2. In Db2 V13, there is new functionality that allows an application to override the default timeout setting (the CURRENT LOCK TIMEOUT special register)...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

CORS settings should be controled by user in IBM Cloud DB2 service( like as Cloudant ).

In IBM Cloud, we can use DB2 not only via JDBC/ODBC but also via REST API(HTTP API): https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/db2-on-cloud/db2-on-cloud-v4 This is unique and nice feature. This could be a reason to choose DB2( than MySQL or PostgreSQL, .. ). ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted