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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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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.

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Support for Eclipse IDZ in addition to VS Code

100s of developers in my client MetLife using eclipse based IDe
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 9 Delivered

WCA4Z COA should scan for //JOBLIB in JCL and use it instead of //STEPLIB to pickup profiler load module

Some of the JCL will have many steps and the user have to modify ever single step for profiler load module. If we can able to add profiler load module PDS in //JOBLIB then it will avoid coding //STEPLIB in multiple places inside the JCL

Read an old COBOL program and document it in english such that a business user could read and understand it

With COBOL programmers retiring, clients struggle to identify critical business logic hidden in old COBOL code. This ability is also important for refactoring old COBOL code, creating APIs and Integration points, and in deciding which capabilities...
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Delivered

enable CDC command STOP,REPL,SUBSCR=subss_name,ABNORMAL on VSAM Classic

The command was given to us on a case to interupt a describe process that was stuck, but this command is not supported on Classic VSAM

An AI assistant to test COBOL code rewriting

For cases WCAT-I-1, WCAT-I-8, WCAT-I-11, WCAT-I-16, WCAT-I-17, it would be useful to have a tool for automating the generation of non-regression test cases, comparing the results of executing the original COBOL program and the transformed COBOL pr...
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Delivered

Provide a consolidate report that list all subscriptions and their STATE and STATUS on a specific source

We need a consolidate report that list all subscriptions and their state and status (similar to the CDA subscription display list that shows a list of all subscriptions and their state. Ideally we will like to have a Stand alone utility that conso...

WCA4Z in Z Open Editor needs to access IBM Cloud through a proxy server

When Z Open Editor clients can only access IBM Cloud through a proxy server, attempts to set the API key fail with an error: 2024-03-21T13:45:09.845-04:00 ERROR: 2024-03-21T17:45:09.845Z: watsonx Code Assistant error response: [/v1/wca/codegen/c2j...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Delivered

Authentication Methods

Provide for authentication to Azure Snowflake databases via authentication by OAuth token, or authentication by AAD with external browser, or authentication using SSHK-keypair.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Delivered

Diff function for produce log records after VSAM files are REPROed

Many customers are using IDCAM REPRO to update/replace the whole VSAM file during a nightly batch job. The repro operation does not create records in the logstream. As a result, user has to perform REFRESH to resynchronize the target database. Som...
almost 5 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for VSAM for z/OS 0 Delivered

enable mobile apps for app based CONDITIONAL ACCESS in order to integrate Cognos with MSN Intune security

Enablement of new mobile app "Cognos Analytics Mobile" and ideally the older "Cognos Analytics Reports" for app based CONDITIONAL ACCESS: This will allow integration of Cognos Analytics with Microsoft Intune security described here: https://docs.m...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 3 Delivered