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Default Selected categories should be displayed while creating MDE job.

Default Selected categories are not displayed in the categories section when we create MDE.
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Orchestration Pipeline supports Grid View UI capability

Currently one can access a Pipeline historical job runs in a list like fashion, i.e jobs are listed historically, in order to view the status for each node/task in the pipeline one has to click/navigate into the particular job run,one of the capab...
3 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Orchestration Pipeline should allow users to automate retrying execution on failed node during pipeline job execution

Currently there is no way to 'continue/trigger' a task execution as part of a job which ran but say failed on a certain task; here is the scenario: assume pipeline has following structure: [node1] -> [node2] -> [node3] -> [node4] in case ...
3 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

SQL Stored Procedure or Demo of Converting IBM BOOKMARK to SQL LSN or SQL LSN to IBM BOOKMARK even JAR Conversion Code

We lost a 15 minute SQL Log Chain Backup See Case TS016972617 - for 3 Databases and there was no way to recover - except to point IBM Bookmark at the start of the next Good SQL Log Backup LSN - but to do that we needed to convert a SQL LSN to IBM ...
3 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Under review

better control while removing parameters

TS013848268 fix allows to remove multiple parameters. It is easy to make the mistake while selecting multiple variables across multiple pages. Request to have at least a confirmation list of the parameters which are going to be removed before comm...
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

File Attachment Versions history should only show versions with updated file attachments

When a user adds a file attachment, the File Attachment task view shows the Versions table. However, when the user updates only a field value such as "Abstract" or "Description", and clicks Save, a new entry in the Versions table appears, which ma...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Reading xml(amd LOB/CLOB) fields from DB2 transaction logs rather than separate select statements

We noticed on production that if there are xml fields in the table , then CDC don't read from transaction logs , but rather directly sends 'select' queries. Same behavior has been verified by https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-are-lobs-clobs-an...
7 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Under review

Allow APT_EXECUTION_MODE = "One process" for production environments

In our tests we found for small PX jobs the execution is sped up by almost 30% if we set APT_EXECUTION_MODE = One process. Since we have 10000 of such small job invocations in aggregate this saves a lot of time and resources. But according to IBM ...
10 months ago in DataStage 1 Under review

Perform worflow actions through Email Notifications

For workflow stage, an email notification could be sent to Assignees. In that email notification, if links or buttons for all the available actions of that stage could be provided, it would help increase the usability of the system by a fair margi...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 1 Under review

Have the ability to save the record in OpenPages when in a helper.

Currently if you move from a task view to a helper application you cannot do interim saves of the data while you are working in the helper application so that you do not lose your work if your session is unexpectedly terminated. I am looking to be...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 1 Under review