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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    Enable WCA4Z to install and operate without GPU requirements for non-LLM use cases and troubleshooting scenarios.

    WCA4Z currently has a hard dependency on GPU availability. The Watsonxaiifm component fails to install when GPUs are not present, which subsequently prevents a complete installation of WCABase and WCA4Z. GPU resources represent a substantial infra...
    4 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

    Spool Directory: Handle Files with Identical Timestamps Across Scans

    Currently, the Directory Spooler uses last modified timestamp and lexicographical path ordering to determine file processing order. When multiple files share the same timestamp and are discovered across different scan cycles, files that sort befor...
    23 days ago in StreamSets 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...
    about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

    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 Under review

    SFTP processor does not fetch new files

    The issue manifests in such a way that the SFTP processor processes only some files, while other files are not processed at all. The root cause is that the StreamSets engineering team implemented the SFTP processor using offsets instead of file na...
    about 1 month ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

    Support exactly once message delivery for Kafka

    Due to the lack of support for the exactly-once delivery model, StreamSets Data Collector cannot be used in a large number of practical use cases, which significantly reduces its overall applicability. The importance of exactly-once delivery is fu...
    about 1 month ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

    Ability to use SystemModstamp as an Offset in Salesforce Bulk API 2.0 Origin with PK Chunking

    Please support using systemModstamp as an offset in the Salesforce Bulk API 2.0 origin to be used with PK chunking.
    about 1 month ago in StreamSets 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 Under review

    The ability to specify RBAC for API credentials and to restrict creation of API credentials

    As an admin maintaining StreamSets, I don't want end users to create token on their own without the consent from the admin team. The entire control of creating, managing, deleting the API key should ideally be with the admin team. Here, the requir...
    about 1 month ago in StreamSets 1 Needs more information

    Add the option to set AvroReadSupport.READ_INT96_AS_FIXED Flag in supported stages(Amazon S3 Origin)

    StreamSets Data Collector currently cannot read Parquet files containing INT96 timestamp columns, which were historically used by Apache Impala, older versions of Apache Spark, and Apache Hive for timestamp storage. When attempting to read these f...
    about 1 month ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

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