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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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.

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Cobol Migration Assistance (Migration from 4.x to 6.x)

There are many customers still struggling to complete Cobol Migrations. For a few clients where its taking them long time to migrate COBOL 4.x to 6x. We can introduce a new feature/module within WCA4z to help customers migrate from COBOL 4.x to 6....
almost 3 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

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...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 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...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 4 Functionality already exists

SAS code to python code

There are opportunities where customers are exploring converting SAS code to Python code.
over 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 3 Not under consideration

Support for Japanese for watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed.

Several Japanese customers & business partners are requesting Japanese support for watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible. Many companies in Japan use Ansible to automate their day to day tasks in IT Operation. While Japanese customers and...
over 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible 0 Future consideration

We need an option to provide application/instance specific OC parameters

While working on CI flows, we are lacking the option to provide OC parameters from the pipeline.For CD flow's we have such functionality with the directives We can specify generic parameters in the OC proclib members, but these are valid for all r...
6 months ago in Db2 CI/CD Expert for z/OS 0 Under review

Get better feedback on OC job execution through API calls

When changes are applied in the CI or CD flow, it would be better if we can tailer the output we present in the pipeline towards our users.Today we can print a impact COMPARISON SUMMARY REPORT & COMPARISON COUNTS REPORT it would be nice if we ...
6 months ago in Db2 CI/CD Expert for z/OS 0 Under review

Improve deployment plan API usage

When you create or run a deployment plan, we receive an UUID from the API, with this UUID we can retrieve the status. However we can only use that UUID once. When we try to reuse it we get an error mentioning that the UUID no longer exists. At thi...
6 months ago in Db2 CI/CD Expert for z/OS 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.
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Cobol Explain to be saved as Annocations in AD

It would be useful to be able to save the COBOL Explain text as a annotation in ADDI. Today you can save/insert it as a comment in the cobol code. But if we could save it as an annotation in ADDI, then the explanation would also be available to bu...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release