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Default formatting for Universal Reports

Universal reports come with default conditional formatting. Would like some control over those defaults, specifically we often times don't want the repeat labels to be "transparent" or white font.
3 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Enhance rule based business term assignment to allow column name and the column's parent asset name to be specified in a single rule.

Please review the following slack posts for further details. https://ibm-analytics.slack.com/archives/CMBN9DB9C/p1765407815499829 As Oliver Suhre outlined in the above slack post thread: "To add this functionality, we could introduce a new propert...
4 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

PAFE Viewer Window Should Not Close When the Workbook is Closed

Currently, when a workbook is closed it will also close any PAFE Viewer windows that are associated with that workbook. Users do not think of the viewer window to be related to a workbook. It does not even prompt that the viewer windows will be cl...
4 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Enable Persistent Saving of User Rows/Columns (Spacers) Directly in Universal Reports Web Interface

Dear Team, Currently, user rows/columns (spacers) in Universal Reports can be added, edited, or removed in the web interface (Planning Analytics Workspace or TM1 Web), as well as fully edited and saved in Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE). In th...
5 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Validation of DB2 pre-requisites for DB2 AI for z/OS maintenance

When a DB2 AI for z/OS APAR requires APAR from DB2/zOS as pre-requisites, it is desirable to include in the DB2zAI hold data a job to verify if the DB2/zOS pre-requisites have been installed. Otherwise the DB2zAI software upgrade could be complete...
19 days ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Submitted

Make embedded chat context variables directly available to tools

Our customer is reference customer who is implementing an agentic AI assistant for university students and staff. They intend to embed the wxo webchat on their website, which will need to capture the jwt token from the web frontend once a student/...
about 2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Add consumption metrics (CUH/Tokens) at Project/Space level to SW version as there is on SaaS

Request: Add support for multi-tenant usage tracking in the SW (on-prem) version, aligned with the usage-based metering we support on SaaS. Currently the SW tracks by GB of RAM, # GPUs and vCPUs, but it lacks: Token/CUH tracking per project/space....
5 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 5 Under review

Increase Limit for processing LOB values

We want to use the new OAM S3 interface. But we are hitting the limit of 50GB for processing LOB values.This results in errors with Resource unavailable and REASON 00C900D2.Before V12 there were two zParms LOBVALA and LOBVALS which could be set to...
11 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Make UTF-8 validation optional for user functions

Please add an option to the CDC config to switch UTF-8 validation on and off. This can be narrowed down to %USER functions - currently CDC always does UTF-8 validation for such definitions, even if a column is marked 'binary'. In our environment, ...
about 2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

List Dialog Assistant as Tool

This means that the existing dialog assistant (built on Dialogues) can be integrated into a new user interface — either as: a tool (a callable component used by another agent), or an independent agent In practice, this allows legacy Dialogues-base...
2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Under review