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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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Enable Symphony to automatically recover Master and SSM pod states even when their IP addresses change after failure recovery

IBM Platform Symphony currently supports automatic failure recovery of the Master and SSM instances when they rejoin the cluster with the same IP address. However, in environments where Master and SSM pods are orchestrated (e.g., Kubernetes), reco...
4 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Improve synchronization process

Reduces time spent during component synchronization, when components are transferred from z/OS into AD server. Idea is like instead of doing full sync for all datasets (PDS/MVS) in the project, making some quick pre-scan, that would indicate if an...
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

IMS environments should be implemented for the AD PL1 compiler so AD would show the IBM DBs correctly used in PL1 programs.

Application Discovery (AD) Analyze Client doesn't show IMS DB names correctly in IMS/DB Usage analysis. This is because even though the PL1 compiler in AD Build Client recongnizes PLITDLI calls as calls to IMS databases, PCB parameters from the ma...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Future consideration

Allow user to specify GPU node where LLM gets deployed during installation

Currently there is no way to determine what GPU or what node the LLM uses or gets deployed to. We need a mechanism by which we can specify the GPU node where the LLM gets deployed to. Since WCA is using the SYOM framework to serve the ibm-granite-...

Refactoring Assistant to advise where good spots are to slice COBOL applications.

A developer could be advised by the refactoring assistant what are good points to slice a COBOL program so that they safe a lot of time in analyzing the COBOL code. This will allow the developer to increase the number of modules/programs they can ...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Planned for future release

Symphony Host Factory leverages OpenShift/Kubernetes capacities

Requesting support for a Symphony cluster deployed on-premise (existing standalone hosts) to use Host Factory to scale out to OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters (on-prem or in public cloud). It is our understanding that this is not supported by the cur...
5 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

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

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