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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.

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Remove confusing warning WCZTM5043W about missing copybooks when running a Prepare COBOL

In WCA4Z, running Prepare COBOL always displays the warning message WCZTM5043W COBOL transformation preparation completed. Some copybooks were not found, potentially affecting the transformation process. Please ensure all required copybooks, inclu...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

We are looking for the status of the jobs to be added to the TWS download so that it can be selected when running the TWS graphs.

So because the TWS graph is show pending stratus's we are investigating job that do not run anymore or will be running as a future implementation.
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Need option in WCA to input a voice prompt

Why is it Useful? ============== Integrating voice prompt input into a WCA offers several significant advantages: Enhanced Productivity & Efficiency: Hands-Free Operation: Users can interact with the application without needing to type, allowi...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Not under consideration

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)

Extend CPLEX for Matlab to support the Matlab Compiler

CPLEX for MATLAB is an extension to IBM® ILOG® CPLEX Optimizers that allows a user to define optimization problems and solve them within MATLAB's development environment. However, an optimisation module developped with CPLEX for MATLAB and compile...
over 5 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Not under consideration

Tuning Tool should work for CP as well as CPLEX

The Tuning Tool only works for CPLEX. It should also be made to work for CP.
over 5 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Not under consideration

Modernisation upgrade path from java8 to jakartaEE

axis2rpc. module https://axis.apache.org/axis2/java/core/index.html is not supported by liberty jakartaee , when AMA did the application analysis on source code, axis2rpc was picked up as common modules but the liberty upgrade report didnt mention...

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.
over 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Functionality already exists

Enable WCA to read from multiple repos and help in referencing the files across repos

When WCA is able to read multiple repos, it becomes useful for the user to reference multiple files and leverage the different combinations for code generations. For example, I have a linux code base in one repo . My second repo is a test framewor...