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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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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...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

export and import function on DB2ZAI SQL optimization AP recommendation

Hello, Here is an idea on export and import function on DB2ZAI SQL optimization AP recommendation. it's mostly on static packages. Reason behind is to test AP recommendation in lower environment before the real usage in production. By explain or e...
about 1 year ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Submitted

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

Allow Notebooks to be deployed to Deployment Space

The inconsistency of what can be deployed to a Space seems in need of attention. We should be able to deploy a Jupyter Notebook to a deployment space. We have been using notebooks as job controllers in a sense, for datastage flows/pipelines, and b...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 1 Submitted

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

API Keys with restricted access permissions

We want to enable users to enact only certain functionalities, such as triggering a job run. Currently, the way we do that is to give them access to a username and zenApiKey as credentials to run the job through the api. However, tech-savvy users ...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

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...
almost 3 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible 0 Future consideration

update expiration path mechanism in order to provide continuous productivity

Issue Description Customer Setup: The customer uses MS Azure Active Directory (AD) to log in to CP4D SaaS Service (FRA, Europe) via Single Sign-On (SSO). SSO is enabled using the AppId Service, which links SAML response information from to IBM Clo...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 1 Submitted