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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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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

Make Dynamic Plan Stability really stable

We use dynamic sql now in nearly all of our applications. It is essential for our shop that the access paths for dynamic sql are as stable as possible. So we will use the new V12 feature "dynamic plan stability". If you look into the manuals and i...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 18 Not under consideration

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

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

Remove default grants to PUBLIC on SYSIBM tables

An IBM Db2 Security Health Check audit will identify a SELECT privilege held by PUBLIC on the SYSIBM tables as an issue, with specific concern when the privilege is held on the authorization tables (i.e. SYSIBM.SYS%AUTH%). The IBM Db2 Administrati...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Display RTS data for a list of tables/tablespaces

Development DBA performs design/delivery of scripts to modify production environment. Dev DBA does not have access to any tables in production environment other than Db2 catalog. As statistics are not necessarily current in catalog, most reliable ...
4 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

provide notebook CUH usage via API

Our customer tracks CUH usage on project level and wants to access the CUH information over API. In the past we faced some issue with this approach which led to https://bigblue.aha.io/features/UNIFIEDCAT-6005. Implementing this AHA request has als...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Extend Github integration in CP4DaaS to support the same functionalities as in CP4D software version

Currently there are limitation in the Github integration in CP4DaaS. It is only possible to link to one existing GitHub repository from a project Notebook files can only be pushed to the master branch Main functions required in CP4DaaS are: Suppor...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Deployment space creation via API that allows pending user owner

Banco do Brasil (BdB) is fully automating the process of building an MLOps pipeline that uses CP4DaaS as one of theirwork environments. Such a pipeline relies on administrative functionalities and execution triggers that are directlylinked to thei...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Under review