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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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watsonx code assistant to allow generating Next-Gen IBM DataStage code from the standalone IBM DataStage

watsonx code assistant to allow generating Next-Gen IBM DataStage code from the standalone IBM DataStage, similar to the capability of generating java code from cobol.
almost 3 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 1 Not under consideration

Multiple code conversion capabilities

Verizon has released an RFP where they are looking for the ability to convert code between several different languages. A list of the source code languages is in the attached image. Little data has been provided on what language they would convert...
almost 3 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 1 Not under consideration

Misidentification of IMS Segment

This RFE is to improve the identification of graph elements when using IMS CBLTDLI and EXEC DLI calls. In this situation (case TS004447136 Escalation SRR: 31080) BILRTP00.16969 is misidentified and shown in the graph as an IMS database segment.Thi...
almost 6 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Future consideration

run.ai support for WCA4Z

One of our banking customers in Canada uses the run.ai platform to manage its GPU farm, and it would like to deploy WCA4Z on top of run.ai to manage the GPUs involved with the product's LLM models.

Missing pdf docs for Optim TestData Management 11.7

No pdf-documentation is actually available
over 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 2 Not under consideration

Deep Business Context-Aware Smart Code Suggestion Accelerator

Generic LLM-based code assistant tools lack the deep understanding of critical business applications logic needed to generate highly precise and optimized migrated source code. Without this contextual awareness, their suggestions are often too gen...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Future consideration

Database connection drops during the OPTIM load process

The Optim load request process has 2 steps. 1) Convert the Optim extract file to native loader ready files 2) Trigger the native DB load process Optim initially makes a DB connection at the start of the load process. When the file convert process ...
almost 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Optim audit tables retaining too much data

In the table Optim_Audit_Records, I see 1-2 records per archive/extract/insert. This appears to have started in Nov 2017 about when installed optim 11.3. Yet we have Optim Auditing turned off. So it appears that maybe Optim 11.3 started putting re...
over 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Create a map/flow chart of programs based on what you might want to grep, like a structure, function, header, or other piece of text

A huge swathe of time is spent doing greps, opening files, looking for references when trying to identify code changes that need to be made, files that need to be rebuilt, or in trying to architect a new solution. To save time, would be wonderful ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Future consideration

Optim to make use of REST API / S3 protocol instead CIFS protocol

The problem statement is below: OPTIM is unable the read any archive file from HCP device (cifs protocol used) and this has become more frequent for the past two weeks. The archive file written locally can be retrieved without any IO Error. The Op...
over 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Future consideration