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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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An AI assistant to transform generated COBOL into readable COBOL

Transform COBOL code generated by a tool such as Pacbase or RPP into code that a COBOL developer could have written.
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Remove Workflow Validation Dropdown when there are no validations for an Action

When you include Guidance text on a stage of a workflow it automatically includes a dropdown for validating the actions that can take place on the workflow. In a lot of cases the actions do not have validations so these dropdown menu items serve n...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Future consideration

Allow calculated fields to be editable

Hi Team, We are moving triggers to calculations and we have triggers that set the fields and still allows the users to update it. WE need calculated fields to be editable to work on this migration. Raising this RFE to allow calculated fields to be...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 2 Future consideration

add message at EOJ with jobs/load stats

Currently in loader job output the stats of the job /table / load times are displayed. I would like for them to be in a message that we can use to automate stats on loads. example: “HLxxxxI Job J9I75275 Full table, number of rows: 610254877, amoun...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enable HDR Secondary to perform archives

Modify HDR code to add a state whereby the secondary server can be allowed to perform ontape and onbar archives. Whether the server can remain in secondary mode or must be changed to an intermediary mode are both acceptable options, as long as the...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Enhance high availability for partition by growth tablespaces.

Real-life scenario is described in the first paragraph below. I included a subset of it. The issue resulted in critical system outage caused a partition by growth dataset that hit max extents prior to hitting the DSMAX for the partition tablespace...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Empty Remote DN in MX MSGs with manual entry in MER

We would like a warning MSG to be issued if Remote DN is not Entered in MX MSGs (DNIFINPLUS and DNIMX domains) because the MSG sent to InterAct will get the error in MSG Send Notification.
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Future consideration

Automatic generation of field MsgId: Message Identification in MX MSGs when entered manually in MER

Field Field MsgId: Message Identification is mandatory and unique so it should be generated automatically during manual entry of MX MSGs in MER
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 2 Future consideration

Recovery Expert option to externalise the Recovery Health asset list (Image Copy and Log Dataset names) in Batch and Online

Recovery Expert has a validation and Recovery Health option. As an extension to this option it will really help the user base if there is an option provided to externalise the Image Copies and the LOG datasets, as a list, that will be used for the...
9 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

INFORMIX AUTO INDEX

When no suitable index is created, the optimizer does an "auto create index" for the query. This proposed index should be printed out to the online.log to help the admin to create the optimized indexes for the queries.
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration