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MSK is looking for a native connector for Databricks on AWS.

We already have for Azure. We should have a native connector for AWS to avoid multi-step load/registration via S3 connector. More customers will be asking beyond MSK.
27 days ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

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.
27 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...
27 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...
28 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

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...
28 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Have column headers in crosstab describing the row header data

Having columns with IDs in crosstab row headers, without description makes data hard to understand. E.g. having "1" and "2" as row header, could by a running-count or a hour, a day, a month or year. This can be achieved in HTML and Export to Excel...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

support to write object storage (S3 and azure) in open parquet format

OP Financial Group Data Platforms: We need CDC to write Parquet files directly (without additional/third party components) for replicating data to Cloud object storage (AWS S3 and Azure). The data will be used for analytics and data science tasks,...
6 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Planned for future release

Configure Cognos Mail Server using OAuth

With the deprecation of basic authentication scheduled for October, the configuration of our SMTP server (Exchange online) will no longer work as this uses basic authentication. We need a way to use OAuth to connect to our 365 smtp server. There i...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Parameter 'PCTFREE FOR UPDATE' in Db2 LUW similar to Db2 z/OS

in Db2 z/OS there is a 'PCTFREE FOR UPDATE' parameter. We will need a similar parameter for Db2 LUW. Background: Our datawarehouse application 'IDH' uses many Bi-Temporal tables. An update of any row in the source system will lead to the logical t...
12 months ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Under review

Include CTQ reason / details in db2exfmt advanced diagnostics

We need an "Extended Diagnostic Information" in Explain (db2exfmt) that details if and why the column organized tables had been (early) converted to the row format for processing it in the row engine. This is important to detect performance issues...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 3 Not under consideration