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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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ADDI Job Flow: Step/PROC Node Click Should Navigate to Source Code Like Job Name Does

In ADDI, when testing Job Flow visualization, clicking the Job Name at the top correctly opens the corresponding JCL source. However, when clicking on a Step name or PROC name within the Job Flow diagram, ADDI does not bring up the associated code...

Chat Session Personas to start a new chat session from a user pre-defined set of prompts

I’m picturing something like a way for a user to setup multiple personas/templates, and they could start a new chat session using one of these personas. For example, I may have one persona / template for a Java application running on Liberty, and ...
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Future consideration

Add support for .NET 6 and Linux OS in CPLEX APIs

We developed a product based on .NET 6 that relies on CPLEX core functionalities and we need to make it run both on Windows an Linux operating systems. The .NET 6 libraries are platform independent but the CPLEX Optimization Studio only provides a...
over 3 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Future consideration

Raise learning of large codebases to be a dominant requirement

As part of Linux kernel team, I have to deal with a very large codebase. Booting up with this code base is not trivial and takes a very long time. WCA team should consider the learning task a highly important feature. This can save thousands of ma...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 4 Functionality already exists

WCA4z Missing native support for GIT

BBVA complaint that in WCA4z is missing the native support for GIT.
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Needs more information

OPL model generation with multithreating

the OPL model generation uses only 1 core and it takes time.with a pre analysis of the model it could be possible to parallelize some of the model generation.
over 5 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Future consideration

OPL interface for Matlab

Would be great to have not only a Matlab interface to CPLEX, but to OPL as well. It would facilitate. model deisgn (.mod) using OPL (way easier than working directly with CPLEX. model modification, re-run, post/pre-processing computations using a ...
over 5 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Future consideration

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 ...
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

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 ...
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Request for support IMS call with assembler in ADDI callgraph

ADDI cannot show IMS call with assembler in callgraph.Callgraph shows ASMTDLI but nothing beyond.It will be a nice tool for assembler analisys If ADDI support IMS call with assembler.
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration