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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.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Generating Dataset record layout option should be available for the files in program flow graph

Hi Team, Once program flow graph is generated which is having references to files, If we right click on file it shows only Filter and properties option. Currently we should copy the file name and go to explore project , select Dataset record struc...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Under review

Impact analysis based on Data flow graph

Hi Team, Currently when we generate data flow graph , it goes with JCL/PROC/STEP/DD/Files hierarchy. We can show the control flow clearly from source file to destination file. At the same time if we have to show the data traceability from one of t...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Under review

WCA4Z - Enhance IBM ADDI with Enterprise-Scale Automation Capabilities

Based on our development setup and recent findings regarding the IBM ADDI component, we have identified several areas where enhanced automation capabilities would significantly improve our onboarding process and overall user experience: 1. RBAC an...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Read-only users for CP4DS and NPS Consoles

We need to give access to the CP4D and NPS consoles to production teams for the monitoring and diagnosis of the systems, without them being able to make any configuration changes. For this, it would be necessary to be able to create non-administr...
almost 6 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 2 Planned for future release

PL/I demo assets

PL/I demo assets required to show case MVP and use cases to clients. Canadian Tire corp only has PL/I code and we require PL/I development support as well as PL/I samples to be loaded in Techzone to ramp up Understand phase with clients and then p...
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

watsonx Code assistant for Z COBOL to PYTHON transformation

currently watsonx Code assistant for Z only produces JAVA output. The number of PYTHON programmers around the world far exceeds those of JAVA and is exponentially increasing each year. There are billions of lines of COBOL still requiring maintenan...
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Aauto graph should support exporting the report into .csv format like call-graphs

Many z/OS banking customers have been running critical enterprise applications on the mainframe for decades. The WCA4Z/Understand/ADDI tooling provides significant value by helping users understand the interdependencies, complexities, and integrat...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Future consideration

(Automatic) Test generation from COBOL code

e.g. generation of test cases out of COBOL code for full reliability
almost 3 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
almost 3 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
almost 3 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration