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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Development or test stories for an Agile Development Team for the Explain or RA

Customer is looking for a capability that will draft initial development or test stories for an Agile Development Team. It would be great if functionality was provided either out of Refactor Assistant or even Explain to build these user stories fo...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Not under consideration

Document Data flow and transformations when using synch\sort.

During a recent Discovery workshop for Watsonx code assistant for Z, customer is looking to modernize one of their monolith applications Power One, requested the following idea be logged as an RFE (request for enhancement) as this will benefit the...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Not under consideration

Review code comments, when analyzing orphaned code.

During a recent Discovery workshop for Watsonx code assistant for Z, customer is looking to modernize one of their monolith applications Power One, requested the following idea be logged as an RFE (request for enhancement) as this will benefit the...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Not under consideration

Optim Separate File LOB Extract

Optim Connect does not offer a way to extract CLOBS or BLOB data types to separate files. If you have a file imbedded in a BLOB field a 3rd party tool is required to extract the data. Optim Connect does not have support for CLOBs and maps it t...
over 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Application Retirement 0 Not under consideration

Enhance OPTIM to default to "DOFILE_EXPANSION NO" on zOS.

Reduce SAVRS output by 90%. State Farm executes several thousand jobs a day when executing the scrubbing of our Enterprise Data Capture. If the underlying SAVRS datasets fill up, that causes problems, and they have to be prematurely migrated. Sinc...
over 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Cobol to Java Transformation - Suppress Missing Copybook Error Message when Copybooks are not Required.

When preparing the Cobol to Java transformation, an Exclamation error message may be displayed indicating that copybooks are missing. “COBOL transformation preparation completed. Some copybooks were not found, potentially affecting the transformat...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Provide Db2 instance templates

This is the feedback from SLF regarding TMI scanners -> Create a DB2 instance template for Watsonx Code Assistant for Z. When the user is provisioning the DB2 instance, they can select the template instead of creating a vanilla Db2 instance. Th...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Optim TDM 11.7 for DB2 on z/OS - Overrides for both, SRCCID and DESTCID in Table Maps

Hello IBM, We use Optim TDM extensively for setting up Test Data by extracting from Live and inserting into different UAT environments. Instead of generating the jobs each time a request comes, we have a set of batch jobs that are run when a reque...
over 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 2 Future consideration

load Business Rules from external source

We want to load business rules from an external source and have ADI preform the initial linking to code source using the names/terms/keywords in the loaded Business rule. We would also like ADI to identify whether the code was link through the aut...
over 4 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Not under consideration

Add Business rule discovery support for ASM/PLI

We need Business rule discovery for (at least) Assembler
over 4 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Not under consideration