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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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Allow rolling upgrade of an online cluster to a different major version.

This would allow upgrading to a different major version as a rolling upgrade. This reduces risk by only upgrading some secondaries allowing failover to revert to the previous version with minimal impact. New catalog fields would be auto-populated ...
16 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Allow rolling upgrade of an online cluster to non-consecutive fix packs with catalog changes.

This would allow skipping fixpacks even with catalog changes.This reduces risk by only upgrading some secondaries allowing failover to revert to the previous version with minimal impact.
16 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Allow rolling upgrade of an online cluster to non-consecutive fix packs when no catalog changes.

Allow skipping fixpacks and still doing a rolling upgrade when there are catalog changes. This reduces risk by only upgrading some secondaries allowing failover to revert to the previous version with minimal impact. New catalog fields would be aut...
16 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 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

Better dbaccess output formats

CSV output, or at at least tabular output with headings would be appreciated A "quiet" or "errors only" mode would also be good, as too many times errors get lost because stderr was sent to /dev/null, because most of the things dbaccess writes t...
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Update Statistics from secondary

Given the statistics update process is almost entirely read-only, excecpt for the ind of each table/index, it would be useful to be able to run it from a secondary ( HDR/RSS Node ) too keep load off te primary
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 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