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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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Allow connections to db2 luw databases to use SSL

Our company is in the middle of implementing an 'in-flight data encryption' for all database activity that requires SSL use. Other IBM products such as IBM Data Studio and Data Server Manager allow for connections to databases using SSL jdbc drive...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 6 Not under 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

Larger program limits must be supported by the Refactoring Assistant component.

We are unable to proceed with the POC because of this RA size restriction. This enhancement would benefit the client and CE. The Refactoring assistant is encountering an error when loading a program with ~1200 paragraphs. The error: IAYSD0023E A p...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

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...
almost 2 years 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...
almost 2 years 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...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Not under consideration

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