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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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Datastage Migration Service Should Honor CP4D Folder Structures

In the context of a CP4D Datastage Project with Folders enabled... When a migration is performed (in my case from cpdctl) using an ISX file containing Legacy Datastage Assets (e.g. 11.3) that also exist in the CP4D project, the migration service b...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

transformation rules outside of DataStage

We now have transformation rules outside of DataStage, so if there's a change, we do not need a DataStage engineer to change this transformation rule.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Folder Level Export

We are commenced our development work with CP4D and trying to migrate the flows and pipelines to CP4D model environment manually. When look for option to export on folder wise there is no option to export. It only allowing us to have individual ob...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Future consideration

Display Origin Dataset and Data Source Metadata for Virtualized Assets in CP4D Data Virtualization

Currently, when visualizing virtualized assets in CP4D Data Virtualization, the UI does not display metadata indicating the origin dataset or the data source used to create a specific virtualized asset. This lack of information makes it challengin...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Data Virtualization 0 Submitted

PL/I demo assets

PL/I demo assets required to show case MVP and use cases to clients. Canadian Tire corp only has PL/I code and we require PL/I development support as well as PL/I samples to be loaded in Techzone to ramp up Understand phase with clients and then p...
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

watsonx Code assistant for Z COBOL to PYTHON transformation

currently watsonx Code assistant for Z only produces JAVA output. The number of PYTHON programmers around the world far exceeds those of JAVA and is exponentially increasing each year. There are billions of lines of COBOL still requiring maintenan...
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

(Automatic) Test generation from COBOL code

e.g. generation of test cases out of COBOL code for full reliability
almost 3 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Needs more information

Explainability of generated Java code

it's crucial to understand the rationale behind the generated Java code including but not restricting to the reference of Cobol code lines
almost 3 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Needs more information

Coherence in the transformation (re-use of same code / tables)

Coherence in the transformation (re-use of same code / tables) - code assistant should have a knowledge of already translated parts and should be able to reuse them when re-occuring
almost 3 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Aauto graph should support exporting the report into .csv format like call-graphs

Many z/OS banking customers have been running critical enterprise applications on the mainframe for decades. The WCA4Z/Understand/ADDI tooling provides significant value by helping users understand the interdependencies, complexities, and integrat...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Future consideration