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Customer is using Nexus IQ to scan SW images for potential CVEs before the SW is approved for installation. Customer is asking if IBM can use this tool internally to reduces the risk of sending them images with CVEs.

This is useful to proactively identity CVEs so that we can document and set the expectations with the customer when we deliver the SW to them.
25 days ago in watsonx.data 0 Submitted

Effective r15s/r1m/r15m values for job reservations

When using run queue length indices in rusage strings, there should be an option to have the value divided by ncpus. Since in the "total load used for scheduling" the r15s/r1m/r15m are taken from lsload -E and divided by the specific ncpus for tha...
25 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Not under consideration

When adding a collaborator (user) to a category, the "role" column is too narrow - make it broader by default, or allow users to widen it with a mouse

Our role names are sometimes long, and now the dropdown list truncates the names and user is left guessing what to choose. See attached picture. I know they can use the search to narrow down the options... but there is lots of unused space on this...
26 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Optimizer related catalog tables to be temporal

I am aware that a few more tables in the Db2 catalog will be made temporal. This idea is to make ALL catalog tables that the optimizer uses to be temporal. This will enable the user community and also Db2 zAI to extract the statistics that were in...
26 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

IIDR CDC backup and recovery documentation

Couldn't find much information regarding the cdc backup and recovery procedures, especially CDC for BQ.
about 2 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Support for data type binary for joins in IBM Cognos Analytics data modules and Framework Manager

In relational star schema models it is very common using columns with a hash with type binary(16) for the join condition between dimension table and fact table. The advantages are a well-chosen hash function will almost always generate unique valu...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

possibility to see the Dimension name in the view on PAW besides the hierarchy names

Hello, we would like to have the possibility to see or to activate the name of the dimensions at the view also. For now, you can only activate the name of the hierarchies at the view and dimension icon.In case, you are using lots of alternate hier...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

DISPLAY UTIL should show more detailed count for the displayed phases

We have a REBUILD IX job with a table which has 8.5 billion rows. During the rebuild DIS UTIL shows for the UNLOAD phase a higher count than 8.5 billion e.g 10 billion or more. Therefore I openend a case how could it be that this number is higher ...
4 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Marking a project as sensitive on Default Git integration

One big restriction of CP4D git integration for KB Bank is that the customer need to set Sensitive to projects by their security policy but it’s not available with Default Git integration. As the option is available with Deprecated Git integration...
10 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Enhance Data Tables to add Dynamic Sort functionality

In other Business Analytics applications, their Table/List function set includes the ability for the user to click column headings to change the sort of the data. Data Tables doesn't have this available, which leaves it falling short to the compet...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted