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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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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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The PL/I macro names should be referable in WCA4Z Understand

When preprocessing PL/I source code in WCA4Z Understand(ADDI), macros are visualized in their expanded state, which makes it impossible to identify the original macro names in Application Discovery (AD)Analyze Client. To improve usability for appl...

Include transform feature from Natural to Java

Some SPGI clients (public tenders within them) that are using IBM's Mainframe are requesting to convert from Natural language (SoftwareAG) to Java in order to modernise it. They would like to avoid using ADABAS and start using relational databases...
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Future consideration

Publish Watson Studio Scheduled Job Workflow and Pod Dependencies

Description: We would like to request an enhancement to provide official documentation that explains the workflow of scheduled jobs in Watson Studio, including pod dependencies and related components. Background: Multiple customers have reported...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Studio (Enter against watsonx.ai) 0 Submitted

WCAZ SAAS must be HIPPA certified or customers in the Healthcare Industry cannot leverage it, forcing the only deployment option to be on-prem for the LLMS which is resource intensive and could easily become outdated

HIPPA certification is mandatory for any IBM SAAS service used by most of our Healthcare customers. Given that the LLMs do not interact with data, the certification process should hopefully be easy for the team, while opening up this market/industry.
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

The way Japanese input is handled in the prompt

I'm using WCA on VSCode 1.96.4 / macOS 15.2. When entering Japanese text in the input prompt, I often need to convert characters to kanji. However, pressing Enter to confirm the conversion also sends the input as a message in WCA Assistant Chat, r...
12 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 2 Future consideration

VSCode interface for ADDI

VSCode is becoming the main IDE that is supported by IBM. Eclipse as an IDE and programs built on Eclipse RCP are starting to be phased out at customers.Bringing the main ADDI GUI from RCP to VSCode thus enables usability in the future.
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 3 Future consideration

update the table of contents for an impact analysis report on Understand for Watsonx Code Assistant for z

Hi, The impact analysis report are not easy to understand. What could be something good and helpuf is that we have directly on the table of contents the name of the program where the data is included. As you can see on the picture, you have 4 time...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

Request to Simplify and Improve ADDI Visualization for New User Onboarding

We have received repeated feedback from our client regarding the current visualization of flow diagrams and reports within ADDI. They have expressed that many of the generated diagrams appear overly dense and difficult to interpret, especially for...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Integration of Commvault Metallic.io with IBM OpenShift for Online Backup Support

Many of our customers have already adopted Commvault Metallic.io as their preferred backup solution. Also, to simplify IT operation managing separate backup solutions for Cloud Pak for Data environments adds complexity and costs (OADP) Enabling in...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 5 Future consideration

Add a Custom URL to the Home Page

Allow the customer to add a custom URL to the Home Page under Support.
19 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review