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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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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.

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 ...
almost 2 years 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.
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Needs more information

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 ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Under review

Provide capability to configure Profiles for the UI (ADDI)

We are a customer using COBOL written with a Macro Framework and a complex middleware layer. To support this, we configured ADDI with pre-processor extensibility. Our developers have diverse requirements regarding what they want to see in the call...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

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

Provide a property/flag to access the DB2 catalog directly or the current graph database

Since the graph database database needs to be refreshed at regular intervals, therefore will always be out of sync with the real world and create there a window to allow for incorout situation where DAF is not aware of new DB2 objects created via ...
5 months 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...
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