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Manta SAS Lineage | Support for "SYMPUT" in SAS routine

The call of the SAS routine SYMPUT (call symput) in the SAS codes is being ignored by the Manta analyzer, resulting in null values getting assigned to the macro variables used in the call statement. There are instances of these variables being use...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Provide unified UI for configuring and running CP4D backup/restore

The current process for the backup/restore of CP4D is complex and requires a number of steps that are needed for setting up the backup/restore. Any of these steps can go wrong. Just for the initial setup, it took multiple working sessions between ...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Open Comments field on PAW Book Properties

Allow admins to capture developer related details on a PAW book that would help with support
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Is there any metadata or tags in PAW that identifies the source of where the reports originated or was published from, see description below.

Hi, Scenario - A report is developed and created in PAfE, it is then Published to PAW, the person who developed all the reports in PAfE and published to PAW has left the company. Is there any indicators from the PAW report side with respect to the...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

FAP application to support multi-subnet failover

Hi, After Q1 2025 our team proceeded with network migration to greenfield, after which our Cognos MSSQL server went from this setup: one primary, one backup; to this setup: cluster server - when one is in maintenance or overloaded, the other one t...
about 1 month ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Support Windows 11 running on Azure Virtual Desktop for Modeler Client and CADS Deployment Manager

We request that Modeler Client and CADS Deployment Manager support to run on Windows 11 on Azure Virtual Desktop.
about 1 month ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Submitted

The PL/I macro names should be referable in WCA4Z Understand

When preprocessing PL/I source code in WCA4Z Understand(ADDI), macros are visualized in their expanded state, which makes it impossible to identify the original macro names in Application Discovery (AD)Analyze Client. To improve usability for appl...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

PII detection for labeling or automated scrubbing

Identifying Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in field text is vital for compliance and security purposes to have some call out around PII, or automated scrubbing. We have setup our own PII guardrail as an LLM call to pick up some specific...
5 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 5

There should be a table like SYSUTILITIES that contains Db2 Commands that have been issued

There should be a table like SYSUTILITIES , say SYSCOMMANDS, that contains Db2 Commands that have been issued, including the full text of the Db2 command that was issued.
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 16 Planned for future release

Macro functional parity of prompt/paramvalue and promptmany

The cognos macro language has the ParamValue function which is great for getting parameters without causing a missing parameter exception (and a prompt appearing). ParamValue can only be used for single values. It has feature parity with the Promp...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted