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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    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...
    about 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Application Retirement 0 Not under consideration

    Add Read/Write information to export of Where Used - Cobol Variable analysis

    The Where Used - COBOL Variable analysis shows which statements will read or write to the variable. However this information is not included in the CSV export of the tree view. A workaround could be to filter the view on the statement types, but t...
    over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

    Exclude dead code from various data/variable analysis

    Various reports and analysis are useful to understand how variables are used in the application. Field Usage Report, Field Expansion Report, Where Used Variables (but report and tree view). All of these are useful to understand impact of changes, ...
    over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

    Enable TDM to create a trusted connection and user switching

    In a Db2 environment with very strict security and RCAC enabled to secure data on the row level, it is needed to know the actual userid that is driving the request. Application servers usually connect using a system account and this is also common...
    over 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

    Track % of code generated in yaml file - automatically measuring WCA adoption

    NOTE: This relates to another of my ideas, using (G) as an identifier for generated content: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/WCAST-I-297 Explanation: With a short (G) identifier for generated code, there's no indication which model was used or whether...
    over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Under review

    (G) for generated like © for copyright

    Simply put, instead of: // Assisted by watsonx Code Assistant // Code generated by WCA@IBM in this programming language is not approved for use in IBM product development. def some_generated_function(data): return process(data) This: # (G) ibm-gra...
    over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Not under consideration

    Extend the source java version support for java version upgrades

    Many of our customers are currently using Java versions 4 or 5, and in the past few years have been trying to update to versions 17 or 21. wCA only supports source versions from 6, so it is not possible to update versions 4 or 5. As the competing ...
    over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Enterprise Java 1 Not under 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...
    about 5 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...
    about 5 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
    about 5 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Not under consideration

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