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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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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

DCAT-AP exchange format for European customers

Hi, DCAT-AP is mandatory on european public customers is order to interchange catalog / asset information. https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat-3/ . It's should be a huge accelerator to have it on IKC or at least on Knowledge accelerator, in order to ...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Industry Accelerator "SAP": Proactive Enhancement of IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC) and watsonx.data for German SAP Customers and SAP BW Migrations

To maintain and grow IBM’s relevance in the SAP ecosystem—especially for German-speaking customers—we must proactively enhance our catalog and metadata solutions (IKC and watsonx.data) to deeply support German language, SAP-specific metadata, and ...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 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

Quality rule lifecycle (Draft to Operational stage)

Bradesco requests that quality rules initially remain in a "draft" state and only become operational after being explicitly "published," similar to the lifecycle of business terms. This would allow for review and approval before rules impact produ...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 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

Related Values - Overlay

When adding related values to a RDS the pop-up overlay covers the name of the RDS (Current Overlay - Related Values.png). Kindly move the overlay down so the RDS name is still visible (Suggested Overlay - Related Values.png). Alternatively add the...
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Custom assets should not have out of the box relationships to artifacts (i.e. Business Term and Classification)

We have created custom assets, and now for each there's a section 'Governance' which has fields for terms and classifications both. Neither are used, but they show as 'No term assigned yet' or whatever (our dev is down now, can't check the exact w...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Possibility to bookmark own content

In our operating model users are working strictly with limited amount of catalog items/categories/projects. So instead of every time "finding" ones content by re-browsing all catalogs/categories/projects again it would be great to be able to bookm...
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration