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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    Reverse engineer ZPARM to ASM format like in DSNTIJUZ

    Very often the source code of any given ZPARM for a Db2 for z/OS subsystem "disappears". Be it holiday, be it by accident, be it CANCEL after submit... Whatever the reason, the problem is the same: You have a running version of the ZPARM that does...
    6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    DSNTEP2/4 should issue Timestamp before and after SQL statement execution, or even better the delta ow long a SQL statement needs

    If a lot of SQL statements are executed in one job and step, it is very difficult to find the SQL which takes the long time. IFCID traces on DB2 must be started to neil this down. OR another example is the fact that e.g. the first ALTER in a seque...
    about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    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it, forcing the only deployment option to be on-prem for the LLMS which is resource intensive and could easily become outdated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.
    3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

    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...
    10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Future consideration

    Private context variables

    Watsonx Orchestrate (wxO) Agentic currently supports context variables for collecting and passing information between agents and tools. The content of the context variables will show up in the trace lots. That is not accepable for some of the cont...
    11 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

    Securely passing context from my web application to Agent

    Watsonx Orchestrate (wxO) Agentic currently has a single select feature, however, the usability of the selection list diminishes as the list grows in length. Some customers are dealing with lists that are hundreds or thousands of items long, so a ...
    11 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

    VSAM insight AI agent on IBM Z

    At Fall 2025 AI Council, Citibank expressed interest in a VSAM agent (similar to Db2 Agent that is in-plan) for watsonx assistant for Z. Client indicated that VSAM databases on IBM Z holds critical business data, yet extracting actionable insights...
    11 days ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted

    AI Agent for Stress test on IBM Z

    At Fall 2025 AI Council, multiple clients indicated that an AI agent for Stress test on Z will be vital to their organization. Donna Dillenberger had indicated that IBM Research is playing with this item, so this requirement should be directed to ...
    11 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

    Need XGBOOST to support 3.1.2 version

    Currently watsonx only supports 2.0 and 2.1 version,
    11 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

    The ability to specify RBAC for API credentials and to restrict creation of API credentials

    As an admin maintaining StreamSets, I don't want end users to create token on their own without the consent from the admin team. The entire control of creating, managing, deleting the API key should ideally be with the admin team. Here, the requir...
    11 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

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