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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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Table-level error handling for batch load operations for IBM Data Gate for watsonx

Today, when executing batch load operations across multiple tables, if a single table encounters an error or limitation, IBM Data Gate for watsonx fails the entire batch silently, without generating errors or events. This results in: No tables bei...
about 13 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

Actionable error handling and troubleshooting guidance for known limitations for IBM Data Gate for watsonx

When synchronization errors occur due to known limitations (e.g., FIELDPROC, RRF, or other restrictions), IBM Data Gate for watsonx currently exposes generic error messages that complicate troubleshooting. In some cases, lack of proper handling ha...
about 14 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

Centralized and queryable monitoring logs and alerts for IBM Data Gate for watsonx

Currently, error identification and log analysis in IBM Data Gate for watsonx are difficult and inefficient. Errors may occur without appearing in the Event tab or any centralized monitoring interface. During multiple PoC/POT activities, troublesh...
about 14 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

Table-level synchronization monitoring for IBM Data Gate for watsonx

Today, IBM Data Gate for watsonx exposes only generic monitoring information (e.g., inserted rows, updated rows) at a global level, without visibility into synchronization status per database or table. This makes it difficult for customers to: Val...
about 14 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

Efficient ingestion with equality deletes and automated optimization to vector deletes for Iceberg tables for IBM Data Gate for watsonx

Bradesco recognizes that generating vector deletes directly within IBM Data Gate for watsonx is not feasible, as it would require read-after-write operations and significantly degrade synchronization performance. To solve this, we propose a two-st...
about 14 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

The PL/I macro names should be referable in WCA4Z Understand

When preprocessing PL/I source code in WCA4Z Understand(ADDI), macros are visualized in their expanded state, which makes it impossible to identify the original macro names in Application Discovery (AD)Analyze Client. To improve usability for appl...

Extend watsonx Code Assistant for Z – Optimize to support PL/I performance analysis and optimization.

Many enterprise z/OS customers still run important workloads in PL/I, especially in banking and insurance. Today Optimize works well for COBOL, but PL/I is not supported, so teams still rely on manual analysis or a few experienced PL/I experts to ...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 9 Submitted

AI Agent for Stress test on IBM Z

At Fall 2025 AI Council, multiple clients indicated that an AI agent for Stress test on Z will be vital to their organization. Donna Dillenberger had indicated that IBM Research is playing with this item, so this requirement should be directed to ...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

Provide capability to configure Profiles for the UI (ADDI)

We are a customer using COBOL written with a Macro Framework and a complex middleware layer. To support this, we configured ADDI with pre-processor extensibility. Our developers have diverse requirements regarding what they want to see in the call...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

It would be really helpful for WXCA4Z to be able to ingest Assembler language code and be able to explain it. It would also be helpful to be able to transform assembler to Metal C and COBOL code to C/C++.

While we run some JAVA code, most of our code is COBOL code that is optimized for the z15 and above. We don't really want to convert that code to JAVA, but would love to convert it to C/C++. Also, as us old-time assembler coders retire, we need a ...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted