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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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Add better pipeline failure notification stages/connectors like 11.7 on prem

We should have access to a Email Notification stage like on prem 11.7 has to allow us to notify an email group for failures and add specific job log/runtime data to the email. Not having this causes a lot of manual checking on jobs, and the built-...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 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...
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

SEL Prototype to include HIDDEN columns

Contents of Hidden columns can only be viewed by explcitly naming them in a SELECT statement. There is no problem with this but there are times when I want to a) know that a column is hidden from the column panel ADB21TC b) issue a SELECT that wil...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

in CM- Manage Changes display change i miss coloum 'create date'

CM - Manage Changes 1 - Display changes I mis a column with create date Is that possible ? Sel ID Owner Name Type Status I Comment * * * * * * * --- -------- -------- --------------------------- -------- -------- - --------> 67 BE6002LD Z306034...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Using the VS Code wca.core.chat.focus Open chat command, put keyboard focus in the chat window

VS Code offers commands as a keyboard-driven approach. I can hit cmd+shift+p, type wca chat, hit enter, and the WCA window is right there ...... except to get keyboard focus in the chat box i have to hit shift+tab twice! Put keyboard focus in the ...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 1 Not under consideration

Retain separate dataset names used for exporting changes and importing Multi-target changes

The panel for exporting a change always defaults to dataset name EXPORTED.CHANGES. It should retain the dataset name used the last time, like most other panels do. Also, if you export a change, then import the change into a Multi-Target change (wi...
11 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

write the initial prompt as a comment in the playbook when using the playbook generation feature

When someone uses the WCA4A's playbook generation feature (generating a full playbook thanks to a single prompt), it would be useful (some customers hasve asked for this) if the initial prompt used to build the playbook could be written as a comme...

GOC - ADD PARTITION ENDING AT ('2021-02-10-23.59.59.999999'); generating TS drop/create instead of an alter

DB2 V12 allows ADD PARTITION ENDING AT ('2021-02-10-23.59.59.999999'); to be materialized with an Alter. GOC is using old DB2 rules which drop/create TS.
over 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support for complex Git Repos for WCA4Z Understand

Today you need to manually add all folders from a Git Repo if you want to synchronize to a WCA4Z Understand/AD project. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/addi/6.1.3?topic=commands-iv-use-cases-best-practices . We need a way to specify root folders, and ...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

RAG Compiler/static analysis tool output

In order to support features like /resolve and to improve code gen, providing the output of the compiler and static analysis tools that are relevant to the current context in a retrievel augmented generation fahsion would be helpful (in the case o...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 1 Future consideration