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DS popup feature which identifies changed tables, UMS does not have a pop up

In data studio, there is a pop-up when you log in, that tells you that a table has been altered on the mainframe and will need action in accelerator. UMS/Admin Foundation does not have this pop-up. There is a red dot that indicates a table has bee...
5 days ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Allow DNS name in IMS notification exit

Right now, as best as I can see, to use the IMS notification exit you must use the IP address in the assembler exit configuration table (CECE1OPT). This requirement to use IP has been frowned upon by our network team, they would prefer a DNS name....

Add to the elastic index lsf_job_acct a field that will save memory limit set to a job

Adding this data to elastic will enable us in a simple way to find jobs with memory limit higher than memory requested and to check actual usage of memory
5 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Submitted

Hover over governance artifacts

Currently, the descriptions of governance artifacts are only available in the documentation and in configurations and settings -> manage assets and artifact definitions. For example, explanations such as what a category is, its purpose, its lif...
5 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

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...
4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Under review

Using a Custom Root Certificate for Secure Db2U for OLTP Instance Creation in CP4D

The customer would like to request that the platform provide official support for security certificate customization for Db2U for OLTP and Db2Wh running on CP4D, either by: Allowing customization via injection in the Db2U for OLTP or Db2Wh CR yaml...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 2 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, ...
3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

WCA4Z Explanation should display error messages when using translation to native language

WCA4Z Explanation displays errors when the generation of the explanation fails, for example if a call to the API "/explanation/PL1?level=SIMPLE" fails with the error: "stop_reason":"max_tokens". However, no error is displayed if the error happens ...
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 5 Under review

Detailed Status and Logging for API-Based Data Loads in Controller

Current Challenge In the Classic Client, detailed log reports are available for data uploaded to Controller. Similarly, Controller Web provides status and detailed logs for consolidations, manual web imports, and a summary of Classic imports, incl...
about 2 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Support transformations for the OpenLineage Column Level Lineage dataset facet.

Why it is useful? Transformations are an integral part in any data flow representation. They comprise logic describing data, functions and process information that are vital for deriving lineage on an attribute. A field of an output in Column Leve...
18 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review