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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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PL1/DL1 passing pointers for PCB's and CEETDLI support

NRB cannot use full functionality of PL1 with DL1 access as they use CEETDLI as DL1 Interface program which is NOT supported. Other problem is that the PCB's are passed as pointers which is also not supported.
about 5 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 3 Future consideration

Prevent data loss when persistent volume claim storage is full

We have an example of a user updating a notebook, running and saving the code, but losing updated code due to what appears to be a persistent volume claim storage is full situation. A proposed solution would be the ability to save the updated code...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

Optimizing the opening of the Build Configuration tool

This change request follows the TS003720822 incident on the Build Configuration tool.Loading the list of projects in Build Configuration is very long in production.The loading time is 40 minutes for about 650 projects in production.For the record,...
over 6 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Future consideration

PL1 support Business Rules Discovery

NRB has mainly PL1 programs and would like to discover business rules
over 5 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Not under consideration

Enhancing Patch Review Efficiency through WCA Model Integration

Objective: Introduce a review capability within WCA that enables developers to assess code patches with contextual clarity, leveraging model-driven insights to improve traceability, understanding, and decision-making. Rationale: Traditional patch ...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

Assembler Code Explanation - Client wants Code Explanation to identify the system call and application calls for Assembler modules

Most of the times, assembler modules are used for system programming. However, some of them might also be used as application modules. It would be beneficial to differentiate the system calls and application calls through the explanation generated.
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Store PARM details when processing JCL

We are trying to identify when certain REXX scripts get called and this is stored as the PARM in the JCL. With the example below, I can see details for the inputs and outputs, but can't find 'OS#QTIM1' stored anywhere: //STEP020 EXEC PGM=IRXJCL,PA...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

SSH User and Host Key renewal

In Netezza, ssh keys are rigid and can not be renewed (refer TS018311857). Per constant security threats, this is a least requirement to renew ssh root user and ssh host keys. And ssh keys are integrated with internal and external nodes, we reques...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Zabbix support

Allow for Zabbix agent to be officially supported on the platform to have integrated monitoring of all systems in the company including CPDS.
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

Support for associating files and data sets for COBOL programs that do not have file definitions

In COBOL programs (*1) that realizes file access by calling the subroutines responsible for the access method, there is a restriction that the file name to be accessed cannot be associated with the data set name. It is possible to define the assoc...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review