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Information Button with mouseover text

Such a button —or simply the option of a mouseover for various dashboard objects—would be very helpful in explaining certain elements of a dashboard in more detail.
27 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Db2rest set a limit on the connection timeout.

With Db2Rest currently single user (without any permissions) can disable whole rest service for everyone for around 19 minutes. If user, by mistake, uses isSSLConnection:True and port 50000 when requesting for authentication token at v1/auth/ endp...
27 days ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Submitted

PAW - stop column resize upon selector change

In PAW workbooks, for cube views - when a selector is updated the column width changes. Enhancement: to be able to freeze the automatic resizing on column width. For example below - the 'comment' column is sized correctly with Aug month is selecte...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

we would like to raise a feature request for Informix to generate alerts or log messages in the online message log whenever index corruption is detected, as such events are currently not notified or recorded. on Informix secondary servers

In an Informix cluster environment, when the secondary server becomes the primary, any existing corruption on the secondary can be carried over without any notification. This can result in the corruption impacting all DML operations on the new pri...
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Export the performance metrics has limitations in selecting metric ID's it allows only 8

monitor subscription performance metricIDs 107,108,109,118,1504,1104,1303,2402,2403,204,205,206,2101,207,208,209,216,2301; You can also export – below is the sample command export subscription performance snapshot name IIGTEST metricIDs 107,108,… ...
7 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Build Dynamic filters using WatsonX

Not all business users are able to create filters with their desired conditions directly in the Grid view. To simplify this, we want to enable users to input their filter criteria in natural language through WatsonX. WatsonX will then interpret th...
7 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Option to avoid sampling for the distribution statistics without creating an index

Because of a misleading distribution statistic the Db2 optimizer can in some situations choose a very bad execution plan.The reason for this is, that Db2 internally samples data to faster create his distribution statistics. To create an index to a...
about 1 year ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Db2 Developer Extension - Add support to execute external COBOL stored procedures from catalog list, save input parameters and reload saved values as well as generating DDL and dropping the stored procedure

Application Developers use Data Source Explorer in Data Studio to display external COBOL stored procedures from the db2 catalog. They right click and get options to run the stored procedure after inputting values, generate the DDL and can also dro...
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Future consideration

Watsonx.ai BYOM support more model framework

As more LLM models being released, our clients wonder if we can support more LLM frameworks. To be more specific: Llama 4 Maverick 400 B 4bit / Deepseek 671B 4bit, Llama-3.1-nemotron-ultra-253b-v1, InternVL-3-38B, jina-embeddings-v3 I understand w...
8 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Python notebook support checkpoint for deep learning training

Our Watsonx.ai has built-in Python notebook for machine learning or deep learning development. As more use cases now train based on deep learning, our client wonder if it is possible to add auto (or some semi-auto) check point helping deep learnin...
8 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review