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Allow relations to be defined between drafts

In certain cases we would like to leave terms/rules in draft state until they are 'ready' - meaning there is no published version. These objects should have relationships between them. Thus we'd need a way to create relationships between two draft...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Integration with Microsoft Copilot 385 , Office 365 , Sharepoint and Microsoft Team

This is very important, as follows: 1- most enterprises use Microsoft Applications in the Forefront and IBM Agentic AI for Enterprise in the Back End, 2- We can do the Digital transformation smoothly and keep the investment in Microsoft technologi...
2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Functionality already exists

Capture DB segment replace calls which actual data is not updated.

Our client is currently using Dprop(IMS DataPropagater for z/OS) for creating Data Warehouse. Dprop captures replace calls and writes to PRDS(Propagation Request Data Set) even when DB segment was not actually updated. Client’s Dprop application p...
about 3 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Provide a utility to find any orphaned nodes in the graph database

Background: Sometimes, due to failed upgrades, workflows interrupted while running, Manta crashes, etc - there will be orphaned nodes in Manta. These cause problems when we try to export lineage from Manta to other tools such as Alation. The follo...
2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

SAS: Support PROC RANK

Background: When Manta (42.13) comes across SAS code that uses PROC RANK, it ignores that block of code and does not draw lineage for that block. For example, when this code is used: proc rank data=T_NOT_98_&mth. TIES=DENSEout=T_NOT_98_1_&...
2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Planned for future release

Create a function to set MTQ parameter NumberofThreadsTo Use manually in the prolog of a TI process then set it back to its normal value in the epilog

This would stop issues where high touch processes conflict with other processes causing issues such as nulptr errors. It would also alleviate the risk of hanging up the instance where 2 processes attempt to lock the same objects and ultimately a s...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Adjust order of objects starting with numbers

Is it possible to change the order of objects starting with numbers. Currently objects are being displayed in an ordering that works great if 0 to 9 is used. The moment 10 is used, the object display below 1 and not below 9 (which would be the log...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Data Quality Rule output settings

1) In Data Quality Rule output settings I would like to have similar solution as in Information Analyzer where I have an option to select "SYSTEM TABLE" as my output table. With this option each rule execution will create uniquely named output tab...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Db2 TOTAL_CPU_TIME monitoring metric on AIX should reflect "wall" CPU time and not use PURR-scaled time reported currently by thread_cputime AIX API

Db2 monitoring interfaces report "CPU time" metric (TOTAL_CPU_TIME), which accounts the time that given activity/request (and all higher level aggregated interfaces) spent actively "on CPU" whilst executing the query. On AIX this information is ob...
over 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

FastMap to validate dependent picklists and hidden enum values

We'd like the ability to make FastMap imports do the following two extra validations:1) check that dependent picklist values match their controlling field values2) check that enum values are not currently listed as hidden values
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 2 Not under consideration