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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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CDC – CHCCLP – Option to print the send any report output to a separate file.

(This option will become unnecessary if Option to remove or not display “Repl >” tags is implemented.)An option to print the report to external supplied filename, separate from the output. Name could be supplied by a “set variable” or pass as a...
4 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

CDC – CHCCLP – Option to print the “monitor replication” as comma separated report

CDC – CHCCLP – Option to print the “monitor replication” as comma separated reportA option to print reports in comma delimited format. For example: the “monitor replication” prints a formatted report, but would like to receive the report in comma ...
4 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

CDC – CHCCLP – Option to remove or not display “Repl >” tags

In the CHCCLP script there is a “set verbose” option to display the result of every command. With no “set verbose” option the output still includes the “Repl >” tagsCreate an option to suppress these “Repl >” tags.For example.Repl > chccl...
4 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

IBM CDC : CHCCLP: An option to “continue on error”

When running an CHCCLP script to start multiple subscription for a source/target datastore, say 5 subscriptions, if one of the subscriptions is already started the script fails and exit.An "continue on error" option will bypass the error and start...
4 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

Connection between forms in Web

It would be very usefull if on WEB it would be possible to link another form to a postion. This is possible on classic application but not on Web, which is important. For example in form NB12 we have account BAB02 and I want to click on this accou...
4 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Free forms in Intercompany and reconcile tab in Controller Web

In Controller web , in the reconcile and intercompany tab and in case of a free form, it is not possible to go directly to the form in which you would like to correct the error. One has to open the form from the populate tab. This is slower and wh...
4 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

MANTA should script Data Lineage of PL/1 Program as same as Cobol!

Customer uses PL/1 with Db2-Commandos which should be Data Lineaged!
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Add Query Store functionality to Informix and revert to Last Good Plan

Add functionality to Informix similar to SQL Server Query Store. SQL and plans are logged to a system database. Also if a plan gets worse then the server can learn and go back to the previous query plan if still valid. This would be helpful when t...
5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Intellij IDEA support as IDE

My client - Bank of China, is very interested in WCA4Z Cobol2Java. The challenge now is their standardized Java IDE is Intellij IDEA which is very popular among Java developers. Currently, WCA4Z only support VS Code as IDE. To maximize the target ...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Cobol Migration Assistance (Migration from 4.x to 6.x)

There are many customers still struggling to complete Cobol Migrations. Sun Life Canada is one example where its taking them long time to migrate COBOL 4.x to 6x. We can introduce a new feature/module within WCA4z to help customers migrate from CO...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration