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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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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...
7 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)

run.ai support for WCA4Z

One of our banking customers in Canada uses the run.ai platform to manage its GPU farm, and it would like to deploy WCA4Z on top of run.ai to manage the GPUs involved with the product's LLM models.

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

Deep Business Context-Aware Smart Code Suggestion Accelerator

Generic LLM-based code assistant tools lack the deep understanding of critical business applications logic needed to generate highly precise and optimized migrated source code. Without this contextual awareness, their suggestions are often too gen...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Future consideration

Add Read/Write information to export of Where Used - Cobol Variable analysis

The Where Used - COBOL Variable analysis shows which statements will read or write to the variable. However this information is not included in the CSV export of the tree view. A workaround could be to filter the view on the statement types, but t...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Exclude dead code from various data/variable analysis

Various reports and analysis are useful to understand how variables are used in the application. Field Usage Report, Field Expansion Report, Where Used Variables (but report and tree view). All of these are useful to understand impact of changes, ...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

ObjectStar to Java code conversion

My customer has a bunch of ObjectStar code running a key business system and wants to migrate that to Java and DB2.
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Not under consideration