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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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Exclude dead code from various data/variable analysis

Various reports and analysis are useful to understand how variables are used in the application. Field Usage Report, Field Expansion Report, Where Used Variables (but report and tree view). All of these are useful to understand impact of changes, ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Automate install using ACM

Automate the installation and configuration of IBM Cloud Pak for Data using Red Hat Advanced Cluster Manager (ACM). There is a git repo available that explains how this can be completed via policies and kustomize, but it fully supported via helm.R...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Track % of code generated in yaml file - automatically measuring WCA adoption

NOTE: This relates to another of my ideas, using (G) as an identifier for generated content: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/WCAST-I-297 Explanation: With a short (G) identifier for generated code, there's no indication which model was used or whether...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Under review

(G) for generated like © for copyright

Simply put, instead of: // Assisted by watsonx Code Assistant // Code generated by WCA@IBM in this programming language is not approved for use in IBM product development. def some_generated_function(data): return process(data) This: # (G) ibm-gra...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Not under consideration

Extend the source java version support for java version upgrades

Many of our customers are currently using Java versions 4 or 5, and in the past few years have been trying to update to versions 17 or 21. wCA only supports source versions from 6, so it is not possible to update versions 4 or 5. As the competing ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Enterprise Java 1 Not under consideration

Incorporate Certificate Authority (expiration) into RedHat Cert Manager

CA issue(resulted in support case). In the case, it was the CA that expired. The customer has paid-for CAs, as well as the product self-signed. Dev mentioned ways to incorporate external cert managers into RedHat CertManager: Here are the procedur...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Bedrock 0 Under review

Create explanatory documentation or announcements about the CP4D shift to knative eventing

In recent versions, IBM have moved away from the internal IBM Events Operator, to the open source knative-eventing. This has technical ramifications, which are minor. But customers should be given an explanation of this, and be forewarned that the...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Remove need for cross-namespace permissions in OLM by providing raw YAML files

Our organization needs to run Guardium Data Security Center (which uses Db2 U) in an air-gapped AWS EKS environment that is compliant with our security requirments. In order to do that, we must remove any component that requires cross-namespace pe...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 Warehouse 0 Not under consideration

Ability to install and run using an internal private registry

Our organization needs to run Guardium Data Security Center (which uses Db2 U) in an air-gapped AWS EKS environment. In order to that, we need to be able to use our own internal private registry that is not reliant on OpenShift or OLM (see other i...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 Warehouse 0 Not under consideration

Enhance User variable stage in Datastage to map an Integer variable to String UV variable

Legacy Datastage allows a parallel job level Integer variable to map to a string UV variable, but the same is not available in Cloud Pak. Need the enhancement to enable smooth code migration and execution from Legacy to Cloud Pak
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted