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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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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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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 ...
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Not under consideration

Allow user to specify GPU node where LLM gets deployed during installation

Currently there is no way to determine what GPU or what node the LLM uses or gets deployed to. We need a mechanism by which we can specify the GPU node where the LLM gets deployed to. Since WCA is using the SYOM framework to serve the ibm-granite-...

Enable filtering by object name/type when importing objects from PDS libraries via AD Connect

The client is deploying their mainframe applications to production in large PDS libraries that contain hundreds of thousands objects of different type, belonging to several different applications Therefore ingesting a single application into WCA4Z...
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Under review

WCA@IBM Visual Studio Code extension should support web version

If I launch the extension in Visual Studio Code desktop, it works perfectly.But when I tried to launch it in the Dev Spaces / Che-Code ( Visual Studio Code downstream projects ), I faced some issues. First, the login URL is a bit different. This i...
8 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Needs more information

Two buttons, "Design" and "Implement," on the chatbot to finalize the proper design with promt context before proceeding with implementation.

Currently, the chatbot has a single "GO" button to send prompts and receive results. When users request prompts like generating a complete project, the process combines both design and code implementation. Users refine the prompt iteratively to ac...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Enterprise Java 0 Future consideration

Integration with slack

WCA is useful outside the vscode, and not all developers using vscode. having an integration with slack or as independent plugin. It would be great
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 3 Not under consideration

WCA4Z to support ASSEMBLER language

Lot of mainframe applications are written in ASSEMBLER language. Clients are interested in modernizing those applications.

WCA PL/1 to Java support

WCA PL/1 to Java.

Allow multiple IWS subsystems/instances for a single ADDI project

The client has more than one IWS subsystem associated with a single application Currently only one IWS subsystem is allowed for each project, which does not allow the client to import all batch jobs associated with an application in a single proje...
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

/resolve - error resolution command in watsonx Code Assistant

This type of command would give ideas where to look for when specific error message shows in our program. Error resolution command is a must because our competition (chat-gpt) has it and it has shown its usefulness as programmers are changing thei...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Future consideration