IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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    Global Control over Automatic Disabling of DATA CAPTURE CHANGES

    Current Behavior: When a subscription is deleted or a table is removed from replication, IBM CDC automatically issues an ALTER TABLE to disable the DATA CAPTURE CHANGES flag on the source Db2 tables. This is governed by the system parameter alter_...
    13 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 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

    Make UTF-8 validation optional for user functions

    Please add an option to the CDC config to switch UTF-8 validation on and off. This can be narrowed down to %USER functions - currently CDC always does UTF-8 validation for such definitions, even if a column is marked 'binary'. In our environment, ...
    5 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Is a defect

    Enhancing Performance and Latency metrics with append when you relog to MC

    Useful to cross verify the latency and performance , also to keep an historical data for the benchmark , also sending the data to datadog, splunk, appdynamics or grafana these tools are being used by many clients and it will be useful to send our ...
    3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 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

    Alert about DATACAPTURE being Disabled

    Capture reads and stores all active registrations in memory when the Capture program is started. When DATA CAPTURE CHANGES is removed from any registered table while it is running, Capture will not know about it until it restarts as you had experi...
    28 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

    Improving the saved search functionality in Watson Discovery Content Miner to better support usability for larger user groups

    Background: In our organization, we anticipate that approximately 100 users will be actively actively working with the Watson Discovery Content Mining application. Each user is expected to create and maintain around 2 saved searches, resulting in ...
    8 months ago in Watson Discovery 1 Submitted

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