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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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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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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...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 1 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...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Enterprise Java 0 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Under review

Enhance Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS to be able to reload accelerated AND replicated tables and re-enable the acceleration post-recovery.

We end up after a recover with Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS with accelerated and replicated tables coming in to ERROR state which we need to load afterwards before we can re use them causing impact .
about 1 year ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Ability to show logged in users

Idea added by for Wells Fargo: I am trying to find out if there is a way to determine if there are any active Zowe(2.15)/UMS(PTF6) users signed in before shutting down the mainframe task. I did look around the UI and don't see anything? If there i...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

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...
over 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Future consideration

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 ...
over 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Planned for future release

update the table of contents for an impact analysis report on Understand for Watsonx Code Assistant for z

Hi, The impact analysis report are not easy to understand. What could be something good and helpuf is that we have directly on the table of contents the name of the program where the data is included. As you can see on the picture, you have 4 time...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Produce explain Summary Report as was produced in Data Studio

In addition to the index, table, and predicate reports, Data Studio produced a Summary Report that we'd like to see produced
about 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow multiple IWS subsystems/instances for a single ADDI project

The client has more than one IWS subsystem associated with a single application Currently only one IWS subsystem is allowed for each project, which does not allow the client to import all batch jobs associated with an application in a single proje...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review