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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    Preserving Column Order for ROWID and XML Columns in ADB2GEN

    In the ADB2GEN program, generating the DDL with the following parameters GENROWID = 'O' and LOBOBJECTS = 'C', allows the ROWID column to be created in the same position as in the source table. This is particularly useful when the ROWID column is n...
    10 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    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 ...
    10 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

    ADB25 - LISTDEF and TEMPLATE tables should be part of the system and not be allow to have DBA decide on the names

    Currently DBA can create tables for LISTDEF and TEMPLATES. This can cause each DBA to have a copy of their own table, backup issues since they are created in the temp DB. These tables should be created within DBADMIN. The feature to create them ad...
    over 6 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    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 ...
    10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

    HTTP requests for Native Db2 REST from catalog navigation

    From the catalog navigation in Admin Tool you can invoke a Stored Procedure. It would help us a lot if we could do the same for Native Db2 REST Services. What we want in detail is the possibilty to use HTTP metods GET and POST as line commands fro...
    10 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Future consideration

    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

    Run REORG only for ALTERs that placed in AREOR (exclude AREO*) and needed for newly deployed modules (Bind/Rebind) eg DROP COLUMN

    Currently, the RUN_REORG_REBUILD option has the following characteristics M = Mandatory. Generate REORG utility statements to remove REORG pending conditions. (only Reorg Pending)A = All relevant. Generate all needed REORG utility statements to fu...
    over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

    Add function to do a mass LIKE command

    Instead of modeling a single table space or table, for example, we want to use an entire hierarchy of objects to start building a new sets of objects. For example, we do MASSLIKE (example command name only) on a table space and it would pull into ...
    over 6 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Change Management - copy then modify previously saved dialog

    We are a new user of the IBM tools. I'd like the ability to copy the existing saved dialog and then modify it (change environments). If there is an existing way to do this or workaround let me know. Editing the dataset "user.ADMIN.SAVEDLGS" isn't ...
    over 6 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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