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Onaudit add events at the statement level for object read/write

To efficiently audit table/index access - audit at the statement level.
6 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Allow Parameterization of Port in Connection

If we could parameterize the port like all the string fields, we could easily use parameter sets to swap between servers/Dbs in dev/prod environment scenarios. Right now, you have to just use the parameter set and parameterize everything in every ...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Setting up the “Run in the Background” as default option at user level

Most of our customers are using “Run in the Background” option for long running reports. They will be okay to use this option however the user has to explicitly set this option every time they run the report which they want to avoid, and it would ...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add option to set explain on to see what the optimizer is doing.

Add option to set explain on to see what the optimizer is doing. - Which statistics were looked at - Relative costs for table scan/index usage - Why a given index is not used - Which join orders are considered - Why join orders are excluded from t...
5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Add the option for a columns with changed values column to the Change Capture stage

Currently the Change Capture stage will give you the information (in the Column change_code) if your After Data is a Copy (0), Insert (1), Delete (2) or Edit (3), it would be good to have the option to generate an addition column change_columns (V...
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Improve the functionality of the Join stage

Currently when doing a join in DataStage and tyring to achieve the same as e.g. a between in a SQL join, you either have to use the Lookup stage (which has other limitations, is not well documented (according to documentation, the Lookup stage doe...
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Known Issues displayed in corresponding windows of the product

Imagine there is a known issue running a Watsonx.ai model in certain conditions, for version 4.8.3. On the page where you run the model, you have a link to "known issues for 4.8.3". That way, if the model fails, users can see it is a known issue, ...
8 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Known issues displayed in the corresponding page of the documentation

Users encountering an issue often check the documentation. If what they encounter is a Known Issue, IBM should display that Known issue on that page, because users will typically not search online for possible Known Issues. There should be only 1 ...
8 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Diagnostics should contain operator logs when installation issues are encountered

Diagnostics in the Support section only contain logs for the services involved; not for the operators.
8 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Link to open a ticket should contain information about the page where it is open from.

When a user reports an issue to IBM, it takes some time to figure out which page is active when the issue is encountered.The 'Open a ticket' link is a static URL. It could be improved with information relevant to the active window the user is on. ...
8 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

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