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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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Enable WatsonX Code Assistant (WCA) to support MCP servers

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an emerging open standard that enables AI assistants to retrieve structured, contextual information from external sources—such as CMSs, bug trackers (e.g., Jira, Confluence), database schemas, UI design tools (e.g.,...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 5 Future consideration

Need Better Control of Comparison Summary Report in Object Compare Tool

When specifying the reporting options for the Object Comparison tool on panels GOC5 and GOC5RO, there is currently no option to omit unchanged objects from the “Comparison Summary Report”. As a result, the Comparison Summary Report isn't really a ...
9 days ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted

Drop Impact option

When dropping DB2 Objects using ADMIN Tool, it would be helpful to: Have a summary of all individual objects impacted by this drop, listed at the top with the total number of objects by type (tablespaces, tables, views, aliases, plans, packages…...
14 days ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Under review

Compare objects between separated environments

We use Admin Tool and CM batch extensively when migrating object changes from one environment to another. In most cases it works well to do it using DDF or generating the DDL from source and compare that to target. We have one case though where it...
14 days ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Under review

The way Japanese input is handled in the prompt

I'm using WCA on VSCode 1.96.4 / macOS 15.2. When entering Japanese text in the input prompt, I often need to convert characters to kanji. However, pressing Enter to confirm the conversion also sends the input as a message in WCA Assistant Chat, r...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 2 Future consideration

Enhance Db2 Object Comparison Tool with Common Use Cases

Provide pre-built and/or sample files for typical Object Comparison Tool use cases that customers can use to perform typical object comparison operations. A prime example of this would be when a user needs to simply compare the indexes defined on ...
20 days ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Under review

WCA:Latest versions of WCA should be supported on Aqua stack(Eclipse 4.31(2024_03)

The latest versions of WCA does not support the Aqua Eclipse version used by many IBM products. Eclipse 4.31 is considered Long Term Support, via the IBM Eclipse SDK and Aqua teams, and the latest WCA version should provide support for this versio...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Not under consideration

WCA Plugin for CP4D Jupyter notebooks

Customers who have CP4D and want WCA to inject Python directly into their Jupytper notebooks.
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 4 Not under consideration

Revoke impact report generated regardless of dependencies

Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS has an option to generate revoke impact report. If there is a dependency on authorisation you are trying to revoke which prevents the revoke, it displays a message (since PH65207): Can't revoke EXECUTE on &...
9 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

The WCA chat should let the user up/down-arrow to cycle through recent input text, rather than having to scroll/copy/scroll/paste

Useful when experimenting to find a better prompt, because simpler for user than scrolling back to find the input they want to repeat or paste/edit to do something slightly different
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 2 Not under consideration