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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.

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.

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ADDI should support identification of duplication sections/paragraphs across a set of programs

ADDI should support identification of duplication sections/paragraphs across a set of programs. There are lot of code with this redundant/duplicate section/paragraphs and all those would be a target for refactoring to simplify the code complexity ...
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

ADDI should include the load time of artifacts in the Project Inventory

Given that the ADDI has role separation between the ADDI admin for project setup/load and build and the Developers/Analysts using the AD client for generating graphs and reports, it is difficult to know when the file was loaded, if at all loaded. ...

ADDI should support CA-Jobtrac scheduler report

The customer has used only CA's Jobtrac scheduler and have tons of reports that needs to be included in the analysis of the mainframe applications.
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Discovery Analyze Client should not access database directly

Today, the ADDI Analyze client needs direct access to the DB2 LUW or MS SQL Server database. In a production environments, customers keep "ALL" databases in a special zone within the network. Typically, application servers only have access to data...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

User exits on Data Replication for Cloud Pak for Data

Currently, user exits are not supported on Data Replication for CP4D. It would be good to support this to enable customers to migrate from InfoSphere Data Replication (CDC) that are currently using user exits. Thanks!
almost 2 years ago in Data Replication for Cloud Pak for Data 0 Submitted

Aauto graph should support exporting the report into .csv format like call-graphs

Many z/OS banking customers have been running critical enterprise applications on the mainframe for decades. The WCA4Z/Understand/ADDI tooling provides significant value by helping users understand the interdependencies, complexities, and integrat...
8 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

IBM - ADCON added to shopz

We need your help to get IBM-ADCON a sub component of IBM-ADDI product to be on shopz. We have been working with IBM for the past two years and we don’t seem to be getting any closer on this solution. Stephen Wismayer is the developer on IBM side ...
8 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Support of Java datatypes required for financial applications, e.g BigDecimal

Support of Java datatypes required for financial applications, e.g BigDecimal BigDecimals are a crucial datatype when handling Finance data

Support of SQL in Java for Z (SQLJ)

Support for static SQL in Java for z (SQLJ is standard by IBM). NB: Certain requirements prevent use of dynamic SQL (e.g. static build plans, trackable user authorisation)

Use an AI Assistant to rewrite obsolete COBOL applications

Cleanly rewrite old, more or less monolithic COBOL code to improve the maintainability of COBOL applications.
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Functionality already exists