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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Using the VS Code wca.core.chat.focus Open chat command, put keyboard focus in the chat window

VS Code offers commands as a keyboard-driven approach. I can hit cmd+shift+p, type wca chat, hit enter, and the WCA window is right there ...... except to get keyboard focus in the chat box i have to hit shift+tab twice! Put keyboard focus in the ...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 1 Not under consideration

write the initial prompt as a comment in the playbook when using the playbook generation feature

When someone uses the WCA4A's playbook generation feature (generating a full playbook thanks to a single prompt), it would be useful (some customers hasve asked for this) if the initial prompt used to build the playbook could be written as a comme...

Support for complex Git Repos for WCA4Z Understand

Today you need to manually add all folders from a Git Repo if you want to synchronize to a WCA4Z Understand/AD project. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/addi/6.1.3?topic=commands-iv-use-cases-best-practices . We need a way to specify root folders, and ...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

RAG Compiler/static analysis tool output

In order to support features like /resolve and to improve code gen, providing the output of the compiler and static analysis tools that are relevant to the current context in a retrievel augmented generation fahsion would be helpful (in the case o...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 1 Future consideration

TRANS NID for spanish NIF/NIE should accept 9 characters

Spanish NIF/NIE has 9 characters so the TRANS NID function always skip the source row because it detects invalid lenght. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/iotdm/11.3?topic=function-masking-spanish-fiscal-identification-numbers
over 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 7 Not under consideration

Inline code complete and cursor shortcut to generate code directly where my cursor is

I want to begin to type code manually, and have the assistant present an autocompletion based on what it thinks I am trying to do. Let me either ignore it or use it. When I want to use natural language to generate code, let me keep focus in the ed...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 1 Future consideration

PostgreSQL for Optim Directory

Customer prefers PostgreSQL
almost 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 2 Submitted

Support of Java datatypes required for financial applications, e.g BigDecimal

Support of Java datatypes required for financial applications, e.g BigDecimal BigDecimals are a crucial datatype when handling Finance data

Support of SQL in Java for Z (SQLJ)

Support for static SQL in Java for z (SQLJ is standard by IBM). NB: Certain requirements prevent use of dynamic SQL (e.g. static build plans, trackable user authorisation)

Discovery Analyze Client should not access database directly

Today, the ADDI Analyze client needs direct access to the DB2 LUW or MS SQL Server database. In a production environments, customers keep "ALL" databases in a special zone within the network. Typically, application servers only have access to data...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release