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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    AD - Support for GSAM file usage

    My customer programs use GSAM for file access so that programs can use checkpoint restart. The files accessed via GSAM are not shown as files on the call-graph. Nor are they shown as IMS databses. Same as the Ideas below. https://ideas.ibm.com/ide...
    over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

    Debug code from terminal output

    Based on error message from terminal, WCA should have a button to click to analyze the output together with the code and suggest potential fixes. Currently, users need to copy and paste the error message and context into the chat window which is n...
    over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Future consideration

    Build client virtual folder sort order correction(6.1.3)

    After adding files from mainframe, the virtual folder files are sorted based on the member name of different PDSEs but it's not based on the sorted order of both PDSE and members together. Good to have them sorted based on both so it would be easy...
    over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

    Postgresql 16 support

    We'd like an Optim release compatible with Postgresql 16 datasources for TDM and DP.
    over 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

    AI Agent for Stress test on IBM Z

    At Fall 2025 AI Council, multiple clients indicated that an AI agent for Stress test on Z will be vital to their organization. Donna Dillenberger had indicated that IBM Research is playing with this item, so this requirement should be directed to ...
    9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

    WXCA4Z to explain Assembler language code, transform assembler to Metal C and COBOL code to C/C++

    While we run some JAVA code, most of our code is COBOL code that is optimized for the z15 and above. We don't really want to convert that code to JAVA, but would love to convert it to C/C++. Also, as us old-time assembler coders retire, we need a ...
    9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

    GenAI assistant to talk with ADDI

    It would be great if we could interact with all the data that ADDI has using a GenAI like assistant, so It would be like asking the most senior developer/product owner about all the components that addi discovers.
    over 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0

    An enhancement on the graph so that the program to transaction link is displayed somehow even when that program is complied as part of the AD Project

    When building CSD data Configuration objects, ADDI is not recognizing some of the transactions in some of the Groups within the CSD.
    10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

    Having more parameters in API calls

    It would be beneficial to be able to pass more parameters during an API call (server/execute, for example). Currently, we can use an overrides file to modify a DBalias or the path to an XF file, for instance, in the case of a data extraction reque...
    10 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

    Write all logs to disk at regular intervals so progress can be identified if the exe throws an un-trapped error

    We have had a couple of instances where a build has been progressing and unexpectedly failed due to an un-trapped error. As all logs are built in memory and only written to disk at the end of the process, trying to identify or narrow down the pote...
    10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

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