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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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WCA@IBM Visual Studio Code extension should support web version

If I launch the extension in Visual Studio Code desktop, it works perfectly.But when I tried to launch it in the Dev Spaces / Che-Code ( Visual Studio Code downstream projects ), I faced some issues. First, the login URL is a bit different. This i...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Needs more information

Enable filtering by object name/type when importing objects from PDS libraries via AD Connect

The client is deploying their mainframe applications to production in large PDS libraries that contain hundreds of thousands objects of different type, belonging to several different applications Therefore ingesting a single application into WCA4Z...
8 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Under review

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
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 3 Not under consideration

WCA PL/1 to Java support

WCA PL/1 to Java.

Provide compatability between releases and PTF levels

We are a large multi system multi SYSPLEX environment with a minimum of 5 9's uptime availability across the board. Therefore, we normally do not upgrade anything across all LPAR'S of a SYSPLEX at the same time and certainly do not take down all o...
10 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 1 Under review

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 ...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Two buttons, "Design" and "Implement," on the chatbot to finalize the proper design with promt context before proceeding with implementation.

Currently, the chatbot has a single "GO" button to send prompts and receive results. When users request prompts like generating a complete project, the process combines both design and code implementation. Users refine the prompt iteratively to ac...
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Enterprise Java 0 Future consideration

WXCA4Z to explain Assembler language code, transform assembler to Metal C and COBOL code to C/C++

While we run some JAVA code, most of our code is COBOL code that is optimized for the z15 and above. We don't really want to convert that code to JAVA, but would love to convert it to C/C++. Also, as us old-time assembler coders retire, we need a ...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

/resolve - error resolution command in watsonx Code Assistant

This type of command would give ideas where to look for when specific error message shows in our program. Error resolution command is a must because our competition (chat-gpt) has it and it has shown its usefulness as programmers are changing thei...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Future consideration

add format SQL and separate query block functionality that was in Data Studio

format SQL especially helpful to aid tuning. Functionality provided in Data Studio but missing in UMS - these options we along side import DGTT DDL
5 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted