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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...

Enable MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) in Safer Payments

Safer Payments is a critical buissness system and login should be secured by a MFA method. You can either implement MFA or allow integration with third-party iDP like Keycloack
20 days ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 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

lists

Thank you so much for meeting with us today. As discussed, I am emailing to suggest an enhancement in AD that will be very helpful for us. This is regarding an import or export feature for Lists (within the model). Previously we were using Risk Li...
4 days ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Allow parsing of binary formats

We do multiple integrations that require transforming binary data to XML/JSON for ingestion into SaferPayments. It would be great if we can either extend MCI processing with a custom code parser or allow defining a custom transformer, based on DFD...
20 days ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

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

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

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.,...
8 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 4 Future consideration

Add Traditional Chinese support for WCA4Z Explanation and Chat features.

Currently, WCA4Z does not support Traditional Chinese in its Explanation and Chat functionalities, which has become a significant barrier for adoption among clients in Taiwan. Many customers have expressed that Traditional Chinese resources are cr...
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 11 Under review

AVRO messages should have an AVRO response for consistency with the rest of formats.

All the response formats to incoming messages in MCI,KMI, etc. are in the same as the input, so xml will be responded as xml, json will respond json, and so on except AVRO. For AVRO incoming messages the response provided by Safer Payments is XML ...
7 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0