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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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Data connector for CDH 7.x

Actually there is no Cloudera CDH 7x compatible connector. An improvement would be to be able to benefit from a datasource connector on Hive, HDFS and Impala services. We could use Optim DP and TDM either to read data from Hadoop, or to build data...
almost 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Migration assistant from ADS/IDMS to Cobol or Java

My client is very interested in watsonx Code Assistant for Z as a modernization tool to help them incrementally transform their ADS code into Cobol or Java within z/OS
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Not under consideration

64-bit support on Linux

Please enable 64-bit processing for Optim on Linux. Our consumers are forced to use Windows servers because of the 32-bit restriction on Linux.
almost 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Row limit reached "Warning" vs. "Error"

We believe its useful to show a warning notice instead of showing this as an error because basically its based on a setting that the user is specifying in the job configs prior to running the job. Its also helpful when a user might forget to remov...
almost 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Under review

Context based slicing for given variable for both include and working storage  and bulk slicing for these.

This is a functionality already in consideration by product management for Refactoring Assistant.
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Refactor Assistant: Not cleaning up dead code while slicing the code block for service / new program creation

Case number TS015819461 Please find the recommendation for Refactor Assistant on cleaning up dead code while slicing the code block for service / new program creation. Please open a case as Mark requested to improve RA tool capability. #5 – Refact...
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

ADDI-Support for current version of PL/I

In order to avoid breaking the ADDI build process the PL/I scanner has to support the syntax of the current version of IBM(R) Enterprise PL/I for z/OS.
about 6 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Planned for future release

Infosphere Optim TDM - Function CONVERSION_ERROR_RC4 missing for LUW

Short problem description: "CONVERSION_ERROR_RC4". There is a option in Optim for z/OS reguarding conversion error. From the manual. CONVERSION_ERROR_RC4 Option to enforce how the return code is set when conversion errors are detected or rows are ...
about 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Train, increase and adapt the explainability phase for customer needs

The possibility for the explainability asset to have something like a dictionary, a repository... in order to train the model and having tailored fit answer. This repository would be populated by the customer and his assets and specification (for ...
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

When an archive file is deleted through Optim, the corresponding XML file should also be deleted.

This will prevent clients from having to manually delete files. This is being raised on behalf of case TS006385839.
over 4 years ago in Optim 1 Future consideration