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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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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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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...
almost 2 years 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...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Make ROWSET cursors available on the Db2 Server and Client.

assistance with multirow fetch A single FETCH statement can be used to fetch several rows with the Db2 Precompiler and embedded Runtime. Arrays can be given as host variables (and as their indicators) in Db2 ESQL, and when ESQL executes the FETCH ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Pivot a table that is displayed on a dashboard

Once a table visualization has been added to a dashboard, it would be helpful to have the ability to Pivot it. A table containing only one row, but many columns has the limitation that it truncates the field headings. If it could be listed from to...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Dashboard Embedded 0 Submitted

Support for HP NS COBOL

CVS has code written in HP NS COBOL. There is very poor understanding of this code. If Watsonx Code Assistant for z could "handle" this code, it would be of TREMENDOUS benefit to CVS (and anyone else who has HP NS COBOL). While we know that -- at ...
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Not under consideration

Support "ansible.controller" Collection

Two clients have asked the ability to develop some ansible playbooks using the config as code ansible collection from Red Hat named 'ansible.controller'. This collection is not part of the default base granite LLM model training. Instead the 'awx....
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible 0 Future consideration

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.
over 6 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Planned for future release

Require API based capability for feeding in Natural Language to generate the Ansible code. As well ability to feed in parallel inputs (against the sequential one requiring user intervention today)

Automation and parallel processing
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible 1 Planned for future release

Add hotkeys to interact with WCA context input

Add hotkeys to: Use selected text as context in a fresh chat Use selected context in the current chat Focus the chat text input Would really improve the usability as it wouldn't force your hands off the keyboard, it could also potentially push peo...
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Not under consideration

Developers need the ability to interact with the LLM

Today the prompting and communication with the LLM is done for the transformation service using the ADDI meta data. Doing this, provides a very opinionated class hierarchy and code generation. This works will for customers with limited skills. But...
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Needs more information