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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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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...
about 15 hours ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 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...
4 days 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...
4 days 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...
4 days 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...
4 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

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...
4 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

Provide a management system into IBM WCA4z to provide KPI

To meet a critical client requirement, we are seeking support to be available one management system into IBM WCA4z. This management system could be integrated with another solution, such as Watsonx Governance, which provides information such as wh...
3 months 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 Submitted

WCA4Z Explanation should display error messages when using translation to native language

WCA4Z Explanation displays errors when the generation of the explanation fails, for example if a call to the API "/explanation/PL1?level=SIMPLE" fails with the error: "stop_reason":"max_tokens". However, no error is displayed if the error happens ...
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 5 Under review

Data gate instance be able to write on more the one S3 Bucket (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client, Itaú, has structured its organization into independent and agile business squads, which is reflected in their data domain organization and data governance. To accommodate this structure, the data architecture requires flexibility. Curr...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 2 Under review