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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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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

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

Clicking the logo/server-name a few times shouldn't reload API include files

clicking the logo/server-name a few times reload API files with users having cluster edit permission. we need to remove that feature for all users, since Maintenance function already exists (reload API include files).
4 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

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

Add permissions for queries

In customer setups we usually have to define "system queries" to be used by jobs, case investigation, hyperlinks. It is a very common scenario when users change such queries to perform some searches and break the system setup- hyperlinks showing e...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 1 Future consideration

Adding host/ip and port information of the malformated message in the SP log

The hostname and port information of the malformated message shall be added in the Safer Payments logs, in order to allow the user to track the application that sends such message.
10 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Under review

IMS environments should be implemented for the AD PL1 compiler so AD would show the IBM DBs correctly used in PL1 programs.

Application Discovery (AD) Analyze Client doesn't show IMS DB names correctly in IMS/DB Usage analysis. This is because even though the PL1 compiler in AD Build Client recongnizes PLITDLI calls as calls to IMS databases, PCB parameters from the ma...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Future consideration

Require a reload certs button on the instance level in cluster page

Enhancement : Need a certificate reload button at the instance level on the cluster page, when the user selects the instance and clicks on the Reload Certs Button all the interfaces should load the new certs and re-establish the connections. Curre...
6 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted