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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Please improve the quality of the grpahical output for Visual Explain.

Since Data Studio is now extinct the only way to generate a visual explain graphic is by using DB2 Admin Foundation or VS Code Developer Extension. Unfortunately, the quality of the graphical output for Visual Explain is like something from the 19...
11 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Under review

Using the ADDI Dataset flow to enable tracing of correspondence between input and output files of an assembler program

In the case of assembler programs, it is not possible to identify the relationship of the data set flow taking into account the input and output files. I would like to be able to do this.
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

The PL/I macro names should be referable in WCA4Z Understand

When preprocessing PL/I source code in WCA4Z Understand(ADDI), macros are visualized in their expanded state, which makes it impossible to identify the original macro names in Application Discovery (AD)Analyze Client. To improve usability for appl...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

WCA4Z to support ASSEMBLER language

Lot of mainframe applications are written in ASSEMBLER language. Clients are interested in modernizing those applications.

Request for ADDI to support the duplicate detection in assembler

Customer requested ADDI to support the duplicate detection in assembler as well as COBOL and PL/I by the end of 2025.
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Request for ADDI to support the detection of unused routines in assembler

Customer requested ADDI to support the detection of unused routines in assembler as well as COBOL and PL/I by the end of 2025.
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Provide a Zowe setting to suppress any prompting for a client certificate when accessing Zowe from a browser.

Today we have been forced to use as cumbersome unique set of AT-TLS rules to prevent a user from being prompted for a certificate so they don't select an invalid certificate causing connections to fail outright. We would like to eliminate as much ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Under review

WCA PL/1 to Java support

WCA PL/1 to Java.

Z Understand to process PL/I modules even if there is any missing include

We are using Z Understand 3.0.0 from Bob Premium Package for Z, and we have PL/I application code. When we load the PLI code to the Z Understand and we perform a Build, it executes a PLI precompiler/scanner, and after the build has completed, we f...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

Integration with slack

WCA is useful outside the vscode, and not all developers using vscode. having an integration with slack or as independent plugin. It would be great
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 3 Not under consideration