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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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Embedded report library default configuration into installation default / config utility

Since the embedded report library should be the main source of system reports from Controller 11.0, please make it the default configuration, or possible to configure in Controller Configuration. For example: Updating the CA server URL in Controll...
3 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Dynamically manage the size of DD DSNINFO for Recover expert SLB

DD DSNINFO is hardcoded with fixed allocation parameters, and they are not always sufficient. A manual override is needed. Given that the workload has been increasing over the years, the default values may no longer suffice, requiring more frequen...
3 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

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
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Support of client specific coding guidelines

provide opportunity to incorporate client specific coding guidelines for instance use of project structures / folders
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Support self-implemented common services / library functions

e.g. abend handling, error information generation, commit handling, …
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Support of Java datatypes required for financial applications, e.g BigDecimal

Support of Java datatypes required for financial applications, e.g BigDecimal BigDecimals are a crucial datatype when handling Finance data
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Support of SQL in Java for Z (SQLJ)

Support for static SQL in Java for z (SQLJ is standard by IBM). NB: Certain requirements prevent use of dynamic SQL (e.g. static build plans, trackable user authorisation)
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Applications and Plans: Subtasks

Currently there is only the option to create a task and not subtasks. There is a need for a task to have subtasks, as well as the subtasks to be assigned to different contributors / approvers then the parent task.
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Allow compiled versions of a flow/job to be migrated to a target DataStage Environment in NextGen

After a flow/job is moved from QA to PROD, it must currently be recompiled to work. This is not allowed in most production environments as it forces a change in the target environment.
4 months ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Sort governance artifacts by all existent columns

Sort governance artifacts (data classes, business terms, etc.) by all existent columns (not only by "Name" and "Last modified").
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release