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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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Support for associating files and data sets for COBOL programs that do not have file definitions

In COBOL programs (*1) that realizes file access by calling the subroutines responsible for the access method, there is a restriction that the file name to be accessed cannot be associated with the data set name. It is possible to define the assoc...
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Expose VSCode Extension Settings to Customize WCA CodeLens

I would like an option to disable the CodeLens WCA context buttons in the VSCode editor. My preference is to copy/paste code snippets into the chat window, or to use the keyboard shortcuts, so the CodeLens buttons often just get in the way and clu...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 3 Functionality already exists

Integrate Information Service Director with Swagger

We have created a REST API using Information Services director (ISD) which invokes a DataStage job. We want to expose the API operations (GET,POST,DELETE,PUT) to swagger so that API documentation can be done from swagger.
about 5 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Support settings for DEX oidc upstream connector in dashboard

Setting up ADDI/DEX with oidc as upstream connector instead of ldap to support smartcard logon thru external provider is working as excpected. But configuration needs to be done directly in the dex.conf file instead of the dashboard. This means th...
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

How get a list of users authorized to work on specific project via command line

Often customer ask me for a list of users allowed to work on a specific project. I can't find a way to do this via command line , and the only way I founded is to open graphically the administrator , select that project and take a screenshot of th...
over 5 years ago in Information Server 2 Not under consideration

Please consider access control for IGC assets

The requirement is to have access control on IGC assets ( IMAM, OpenIGCAssets) for different asset levels (ie. host, database, schema ) based on users roles or their ownership.
over 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Planned for future release

(Automatic) Test generation from COBOL code

e.g. generation of test cases out of COBOL code for full reliability
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Needs more information

Explainability of generated Java code

it's crucial to understand the rationale behind the generated Java code including but not restricting to the reference of Cobol code lines
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Needs more information

Coherence in the transformation (re-use of same code / tables)

Coherence in the transformation (re-use of same code / tables) - code assistant should have a knowledge of already translated parts and should be able to reuse them when re-occuring
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Support Natural Language (code) with WCA4Z: Refactor / Explain

In Brazil, we have several clients whose entire application landscape is developed in Natural. When we present the watsonx Code Assistant for Z (WCA4Z), these clients show clear interest. However, the only currently applicable capability for Natur...
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration