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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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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 ...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Connect license checkouts to jobs

Uniquely connect the license checkouts to jobs. The idea is to put a unique value into LM_PROJECT environmental variable and then get the LM_PROJECT value via lmstat using the -lm option to display the project value. This will allow LSF, LS and RT...
18 days ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Under review

Enable alternative authentication methods for S3 buckets

We’re currently working with a client on an opportunity that impacts multiple products, including watsonx.data, CP4D, Data Virtualization, and Data Gate. The client is eager to adopt our lakehouse solution but has stringent security requirements t...
18 days ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review

bhist json format output, similar to bjobs -json

Programatically parsing bhist output takes effort and susceptible to occasional changes across versions. json format output similar to bjobs -json would ease the handling of bhist output through scripts.
19 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Under review

Detect connection status to data source

On several occasions the following scenario has occurred:Lost connection at the origin, however, the subscription remains in the "Mirroring continuous" state, but it is not actually replicating anything, since when validating at the database level...
6 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Allow the ability to set the management, storage, and data classes the SPUFI panels.

We have a security policy requiring us to encrypt all possible 'Data at Rest'. We use the IBM solution called Pervasive Encryption (PE). Our storage team has defined SMS Data Classes that can be used to allocate encrypted datasets. In order ...
20 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow REPLACE external SQL SP with Native

Currently, CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE in DB2 13 has a limitation that " If a procedure exists with the specified name, the existing procedure must be a native SQL procedure". Migration from external SQL stored procedures to Native SQL stored proc...
20 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Enhance Category Export feature in UI to include also Collaborators and their Category roles

in 5.0.2 version Category export as csv file does not include Collaborators and their roles.
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

Add support for Db2 timestamp(12) data type in DataStage and CP4D

The Db2 data type timestamp(12) (timestamp with a precision up to 12 digits of the second) is not supported by DataStage. This data type is used and required for temporal tables in Db2 (LUW) and Db2 for z/OS. Temporal tables are a very helpful fun...
2 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Allow Encrypted Connection for IBM Debug Tool and Unified Debugger

Reviewing the connection with the Db2 Unified debugger, it was determined it was not using an encrypted port. All tools (mainframe or otherwise) should support full encryption over ATL-TLS.
21 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review