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Request to have a refresh icon in the catalogs assets column section.

When we navigate to catalog asset page there we are able to see all the details of the asset like column section, business terms and governance artifacts. Now when we are trying to update a business term in the column section to see the updated re...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Searching for data assets using synonyms

Suppose you assign only one representative business term to a data asset, and you have set up multiple synonyms for that business term. In this case, it would be useful to be able to search data assets for synonymous terms as well. If this cou...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Watson OpenScale improvements required

One area that needs a lot of improvement is the monitoring of deployed models for the quality and fairness of the results. There is a solution called Watson OpenScale, which is part of IBM Cloud Pak for Data, used for this purpose.
8 months ago in watsonx.governance 0 Functionality already exists

Reporting on Technical Metadata (Database Columns [Information Assets AND Catalog Assets], Assigned Stewards, Mapped Business Terms, and Who Performed the Enrichment)

The users of CP4D would like the CP4D Reporting Database to report on the technical metadata assets, i.e. database columns, assigned stewards to database columns, mapped business terms to database columns, and who performed the mapping of the busi...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

LSF Resource Connecter should allow start/stop of *existing* AWS VMs.

We have procedural limitations with creating new instances in AWS on-demand by LSF Resource Connector (RC) for security reasons. Our preference would be to create instances ahead of time and let LSF RC start and stop the instances based on demand....
9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 3 Functionality already exists

Data stewards need the ability to assign multiple columns as parts of a primary key

Need the ability to assign multiple columns as being parts of the primary key for a table in a *persistent* way even when the database DDL does not reflect this OR may even reflect a different primary key. Our largest customer service application ...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Need filter on every column and sort functionality in MDI/MDE Screen

WKC MDI/MDE screen is not user friendly. It does not allow to filter any columns or sort function is not there. during the troubleshooting, we are not able to dissect any tables other than manually look at each page. we have MDI's which are too la...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Estimate the optimal BLU columnar compression rate by sampling data

A technique is needed to determine optimal data compression rates for BLU columnar tables. Such a utility should estimate the optimal compression rate without and with the new string compression enhancements delivered in Db2 11.5 code stream. In e...
9 months ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 1 Functionality already exists

File Encryption

We have a requirement to encrypt the file after extracting the data and push it to file transfer.
10 months ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Run REORG only for ALTERs that placed in AREOR (exclude AREO*) and needed for newly deployed modules (Bind/Rebind) eg DROP COLUMN

Currently, the RUN_REORG_REBUILD option has the following characteristics M = Mandatory. Generate REORG utility statements to remove REORG pending conditions. (only Reorg Pending)A = All relevant. Generate all needed REORG utility statements to fu...
10 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists