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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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DB2 Load failure - unable to drain - issue -DIS USE in addition to -DIS CLAIMERS

When a DB2 load utility fails due to being unable to perform a drain, only a DIS CLAIMERS is issued at the end of the retries to show the correlation id of what was preventing the drain. Our shop's DDF work is categorized under common correlation ...
2 days ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

Provide a management system into IBM WCA4z to provide KPI

To meet a critical client requirement, we are seeking support to be available one management system into IBM WCA4z. This management system could be integrated with another solution, such as Watsonx Governance, which provides information such as wh...
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

WCA4Z Explanation should display error messages when using translation to native language

WCA4Z Explanation displays errors when the generation of the explanation fails, for example if a call to the API "/explanation/PL1?level=SIMPLE" fails with the error: "stop_reason":"max_tokens". However, no error is displayed if the error happens ...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 5 Under review

Auto-Term of utilities that left an object in RW,UTUT status

Hello, A few weeks ago we had an incident caused by a LOAD utility that could not start correctly and failed at a stage that left the tablespace in RW,UTUT status. This caused the transactions that accessed that table to return error code -904 due...
15 days ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

Enable WatsonX Code Assistant (WCA) to support MCP servers

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an emerging open standard that enables AI assistants to retrieve structured, contextual information from external sources—such as CMSs, bug trackers (e.g., Jira, Confluence), database schemas, UI design tools (e.g.,...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 5 Future consideration

Extend watsonx Code Assistant for Z – Optimize to support PL/I performance analysis and optimization.

Many enterprise z/OS customers still run important workloads in PL/I, especially in banking and insurance. Today Optimize works well for COBOL, but PL/I is not supported, so teams still rely on manual analysis or a few experienced PL/I experts to ...
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 9 Under review

Add Traditional Chinese support for WCA4Z Explanation and Chat features.

Currently, WCA4Z does not support Traditional Chinese in its Explanation and Chat functionalities, which has become a significant barrier for adoption among clients in Taiwan. Many customers have expressed that Traditional Chinese resources are cr...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 11 Under review

Reorg rebalance should be possible for tables with XML column

Reorg rebalance should be possible for tables with XML column: We have some very big XML tables with 200 partitions, wich are growing very fast and not really equally in each partition. After some time we have partitions, where are 3 times more ro...
about 2 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow a MASS DELETE as a recovery point for a tablespace

As we discussed in case TS019823289, we believe it's necessary to be able to use a MASS DELETE (recorded in SYSCOPY) as a recovery point for a tablespace. This would avoid reading large amounts of log files that, in our view, aren't necessary. We ...
8 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review

Issue: keywords with hyphens getting auto-corrected

We have a case, where WxA auto-corrects hyphen words, even when auto-correction is turned off. WxA is integrated with Backend agent services, via custom extension. Business user questions in WxA, heavily includes names with hyphens like details of...
27 days ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted