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 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

    Please correct to execute a complete search if the primary key of IMS-DB is specified in || (concatination).

    When executing SQL, a complete search is not performed but a search of all counts is performed if the primary key of IMS-DB is specified in || (concatination). This is poor performance to use DVM.Please correct to execute a complete search even if...
    8 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

    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

    In AVZSIN00 - for the Define Database section the NAME parameter 4 chars is a limit

    The name parameter has a limit of 4 chars. It is the connection name that user can see on DVM studio. Our external databases have names with more character and to have to convert them to only 4 could be a limit.For example ORAT1SRV need to be codi...
    11 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Possibility to customize name of Settings during export

    This is meant as a further improvement of idea DVMZ-I-214. When exporting Repositories and JDBC Library settings it creates a Settings.zip file, It would be useful to have the ability to edit the name, as already possible for personal data sources...
    12 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    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

    Improve SMF data for DVM Outbound

    Currently DVM Outbound provides very limited SMF data. We would like to see details similar to that captured for DVM Inbound, specifically raw bytes transferred. Also, for CICS processes it currently only captures the CICS region where the call to...
    about 2 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future 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

    Improve SMF data for Inbound ACI

    Currently DVM Inbound ACI calls produce SMF details that show the CICS region where the call is being processed. We need to know the CICS transaction name in order to assign usage by specific application area.
    2 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future 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

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