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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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(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

To add partitions contingent on the row count of a table\view.

We need other enhancements to add partitions contingent on the row count of a table\view. When exceedingly large (i.e. millions and billions of rows), we need to look for primary and secondary keys, especially related to dates to add where conditi...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 6 Future consideration

"Unpublishing" assets from catalog

Drop/Deleted tables are not updated (Not Marked as deleted) in the catalog after publishing it. Below requirement needs to be enhanced Propose: 1If we are publishing removed (status = removed from source) asset from project to catalog, it should d...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

DATA SCOPE SHOULD BE MANDATORY TO CREATE MDE JOB

While creating MDE job, observe that able to create MDE job without selecting the Data scope data. We don't have use case yet to create MDE job without selecting the assets scope. We need this scope should be mandatory.
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Increase collection count limit within each project in WD on prem

For our customer, they want to use project as tenant level or use project to store more different type of data. So there will be more than 5 collections needed for each project. We need a way to customize collection count limit within each project...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

Ability to split paragraphs inside a document

Several documents rely on a structure that leverages a single section for a bunch of unrelated paragraphs, we'd like to do document splitting based on paragraph marks at ingestion time. This could be accomplished by allowing other tags (not only H...
over 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 4 Not under consideration

Search logic that is defined for catalog search is not suitable for searching name assets with underscores or for searching a middle part of the asset name

As written at the main subject Search logic of catalog search is not adjusted for our search habit. I want to point out that the logic at the global search is different and is defined logical and suitable for our organization
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

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