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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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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.

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Allow Admin user to Preview different role/user access

Currently changing profiles as an admin user to different role-based profiles provides some indication that group membership, roles & profiles are working as designed. However, they also allow visibility to objects that the profile wouldn't se...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

Automating Java Code Fixes in WCA4z with Agentic AI

Business Challenge Current Limitation: The WCA4z tool transforms legacy code into Java. However, the transformed Java code often contains syntax or semantic errors that require significant manual intervention to fix. This process is time-consuming...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

links in downloaded documents

Many analysis results are shown in PDF documents with links. These documents are lengthy, so it is good to be able to download them to work on it over several days. However, the links between the parts of the document are lost when downloading it....
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Program Callgraph. Where files are used

The graph that shows the program callgraph is very good, but when using it to see where the files are being used, it does so by the label in the program. In our case, that label tends to be generic (e.g. FSALIDA, means exit file). By using the lab...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Field Expansion Report.

ADDI analyzes the target variable and the parent record. This is fine, but from the parent record, it jumps to all the other variables in the copy. This greatly broadens the result and adds complexity to the analysis. The only impacts from the par...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

EGL should be supported by ADDI

Many customer have EGL which is currently not supported by ADDI. ADDI should be enhanced to support EGL as well. We could not believe one IBM product is not supported in other IBM product.
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Control over grid view column widths

We're finding grid views / embedded grid views have disproportionate column widths (in terms of reader usability/readability). This often impacts us on fields such as Name and Description. If we had the ability to define the column widths ourselve...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 3 Not under consideration

Refactoring Assistant: Automatically link to newly refactored code

The refactoring Assistant slice the monolith cobol into micro services. But then, you have a phase where you must adapt both cobol (the monolith, to make a "call" to the Refactored Cobol ans the refactored Cobol where you need to have a linkage se...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

PL/I demo assets

PL/I demo assets required to show case MVP and use cases to clients. Canadian Tire corp only has PL/I code and we require PL/I development support as well as PL/I samples to be loaded in Techzone to ramp up Understand phase with clients and then p...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Remove confusing warning WCZTM5043W about missing copybooks when running a Prepare COBOL

In WCA4Z, running Prepare COBOL always displays the warning message WCZTM5043W COBOL transformation preparation completed. Some copybooks were not found, potentially affecting the transformation process. Please ensure all required copybooks, inclu...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review