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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Improve throughput of InSync - IBM Integrated Synchronization

Evaluation of the feasibility of data replication from a Datasharing to an IDAA be supported by multiple Log Reader Tasks (LRTs) / Log Data Processors. In order to achieve this, we understand that a specific LRT would be responsible for capturing ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Include transform feature from Natural to Java

Some SPGI clients (public tenders within them) that are using IBM's Mainframe are requesting to convert from Natural language (SoftwareAG) to Java in order to modernise it. They would like to avoid using ADABAS and start using relational databases...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Future consideration

VSCode interface for ADDI

VSCode is becoming the main IDE that is supported by IBM. Eclipse as an IDE and programs built on Eclipse RCP are starting to be phased out at customers.Bringing the main ADDI GUI from RCP to VSCode thus enables usability in the future.
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 3 Future consideration

wca4z : AD Connect support bidirectional text conversion : possibility to retrieve COBOL programs and copybooks with Arabic and Latin characters.

When retrieve COBOL programs and copybooks with Arabic and Latin characters, the Arabic characters are written from left to right, instead of right to left. Today AD Connect does not support bidirectional encoding. example : AD Connect is configur...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Future consideration

Automatic IDAA log collecting for auditing purpose

Db2 Analytics Accelerator currently does not support automatic collecting logs for purpose of auditing.We are asked by auditors to provide logs containing administrator activities i.e. who logged on into console/Admin UI and what was doing there.F...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 3 Future consideration

AD Build call dynamic resolution outside paragraph

As discussed with the AD development team, the dynamic resolution works only with MOVEs inside the same paragraph with the CALL, plus a case when you have a MOVE to the same paragraph just before the PERFORM <para-with-the-call>, with the co...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

After a load with IDAA_Dual, the table doesn't remain in Recommended Load (yes, modified data).

We started using IDAA_DUAL as the loader. It correctly loads DB2 and IDAA, but leaves the loaded partition in Recommended Load (yes, modified data) for the following reason: It should be loaded; real-time statistics were evaluated and data changes...
4 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add permissions for queries

In customer setups we usually have to define "system queries" to be used by jobs, case investigation, hyperlinks. It is a very common scenario when users change such queries to perform some searches and break the system setup- hyperlinks showing e...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 1 Future consideration

IMS environments should be implemented for the AD PL1 compiler so AD would show the IBM DBs correctly used in PL1 programs.

Application Discovery (AD) Analyze Client doesn't show IMS DB names correctly in IMS/DB Usage analysis. This is because even though the PL1 compiler in AD Build Client recongnizes PLITDLI calls as calls to IMS databases, PCB parameters from the ma...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Future consideration

Send IDAA internal logs to an external Syslog Server

We want to send all (administrative) logs from the IDAA to our internal Syslog Server via a secured (TLS1.3) connection. This means all activities and sign-on/offs that are currently logged internally only, shall be sent to the Syslog Server. To g...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Future consideration