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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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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.

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Extend watsonx Code Assistant for Z – Optimize to support PL/I performance analysis and optimization.

Many enterprise z/OS customers still run important workloads in PL/I, especially in banking and insurance. Today Optimize works well for COBOL, but PL/I is not supported, so teams still rely on manual analysis or a few experienced PL/I experts to ...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 9 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...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 2 Future consideration

AI-Powered Legacy Java Modernization with Integrated Observability Insights in watsonx Code Assistant

I propose adding an AI-Powered Legacy Java Modernization with Integrated Observability Insights capability to watsonx Code Assistant for Enterprise Java to help organizations make more informed modernization decisions by connecting Java code analy...

Support Redirected Recovery from Systems Level Backups in Recovery Expert

As a companion idea to the support of redirected recoveries from System Level Backups (SLB's) by the IBM RECOVER utility that I have raised under - IBM Ideas can Recovery Expert or Recovery Expert Pro be enhanced to provide this functionality as a...
about 2 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Under review

Provide a command or function to identify active users (or at least last activity times)

It would be very useful to be able to tell who is actively using Zowe (and this is really more Zowe but opening for DB2 ADF because there is no Zowe option) and/or UMS/ADF/SQL Tuning etc. to identify who whould be impacted should we need to take t...
3 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Under review

Provide an estimated Bob Coins cost before running a task

Before starting a Bob task, users should be able to see an estimate of how many Bob Coins the operation is expected to consume. Today, the actual cost of a complex task can be difficult for a user to anticipate. This becomes particularly important...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

Allow administrators/users to mandate a specific model

IBM Bob intelligently selects AI models depending on the task, which is a useful default behaviour. However, enterprise customers should also have the ability to require a specific model for certain tasks, projects, repositories, or categories of ...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

Provide model-level traceability for every IBM Bob task

IBM Bob can dynamically select different AI models depending on the task being performed. This is a very interesting approach from a performance and cost perspective, but enterprise users should be able to know which model was actually used for ea...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

wca4z : AD Connect support bidirectional text conversion : possibility to retrieve COBOL programs and copybooks with Arabic and Latin characters.

When retrieve COBOL programs and copybooks with Arabic and Latin characters, the Arabic characters are written from left to right, instead of right to left. Today AD Connect does not support bidirectional encoding. example : AD Connect is configur...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Future consideration

Add Integration with ZEKE job scheduler

Currently ADDI only supports CA7 job scheduler integration. We use Zeke in our organization, can you please add Zeke integration to ADDI?
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Under review