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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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Support of SQL in Java for Z (SQLJ)

Support for static SQL in Java for z (SQLJ is standard by IBM). NB: Certain requirements prevent use of dynamic SQL (e.g. static build plans, trackable user authorisation)

Improve Snowflake Error Behavior When Merge Enabled for CDC Data

When moving CDC data to Snowflake using the MERGE statement, some records in a batch may occasionally be invalid. The "continue" error behavior configuration for the Snowflake stage does not apply for MERGE statements, and the entire batch fails, ...
over 1 year ago in StreamSets 0 Not under consideration

Use an AI Assistant to rewrite obsolete COBOL applications

Cleanly rewrite old, more or less monolithic COBOL code to improve the maintainability of COBOL applications.
over 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Functionality already exists

Enable WCA to read from multiple repos and help in referencing the files across repos

When WCA is able to read multiple repos, it becomes useful for the user to reference multiple files and leverage the different combinations for code generations. For example, I have a linux code base in one repo . My second repo is a test framewor...

Allow displaying spark CPU and memory values on Monitoring page

Currently Spark runtimes do not register the pods on the Spark side with the runtimes framework. So, Monitoring page show only 1vCPU and 1G RAM regardless of the size of the Spark environment choosen is only the proxy pod on the Jupyter Client sid...
about 4 years ago in Analytics Engine 1 Future consideration

Improved support for Sections in Refactoring Assistant

Currently when refactoring Cobol code where there is a "PERFORM <section>" statement, the refactored code does not pull in the SECTION headings which causes the PERFORM lines to fail.
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

ADDI Workspace creation via CLI

To build an automated method for onboarding users, assigning privileges, and adding them to respective workspaces appropriately, the customer is seeking a CLI command to create workspaces instead of using the GUI in the configuration server.
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Add a support for processing CDC data for "uuid, json, jsonb" data types in PostgreSQL.

Product: StreamSets Data Collector. Stage: PostgreSQL CDC Client Please add a support for "PostgreSQL CDC Client" to process the data with "uuid, json, jsonb" data types.
10 months ago in StreamSets 2

Check for and prevent multiple parameters with the same key name

In the May 21, 2025 Control Hub update, we introduced a new feature in the API regarding pipeline parameters. This feature introduced an issue in an edge case (the presence of duplicate parameters) which we did not anticipate. As a followup in the...
10 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

ADDI should export the flow graphs into multiples pages of a pdf instead of single page.

Most of the code is bit complicated and when the flow-graph is exported to a pdf, the entire graph is stored in a single page, rendering the graph dense and incomprehensible. Instead the graph should be split into multiple pages to ensure that the...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review