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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    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...
    3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

    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

    Accept and generate RACF Identity Tokens for authentication

    If Db2 Admin Foundation could generate RACF Identity Tokens (IDT), then the generated token could be used with other z/OS components that support RACF IDTs such as Db2 for z/OS. This would benefit remotely pipelines that want to use protected user...
    about 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Under review

    Extend the filed for Temporary Dataset HLQ on the Subsystem Registration UI screen.

    Currently the 'Temporary data set HLQ' field on the second page of the Subsystem Registration function is limited to 8 characters. Due to company naming standards this does not allow us enough space to specify an acceptable value for this name to ...
    about 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Under review

    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

    Provide ability to generate DDL related objects

    Within Db2 admin foundation you can only generate DDL for the current object. It would be very beneficial to be able to generate DDL for all or some of the related objects - very similar to the Db2 Admin Tool GEN capability. E.g. While looking at ...
    over 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Under review

    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

    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

    Restricting access to Db2s within a single UMS install (multitenancy)

    We have multiple customers on the same LPAR with separate DB2 subsystems and they should not see other customer systems when using UMS/Admin Foundations/IDAA Admin Services/DevOps etc.
    about 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 2

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