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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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We need an option to provide application/instance specific OC parameters

While working on CI flows, we are lacking the option to provide OC parameters from the pipeline.For CD flow's we have such functionality with the directives We can specify generic parameters in the OC proclib members, but these are valid for all r...
1 day ago in Db2 CI/CD Expert for z/OS 0 Submitted

Get better feedback on OC job execution through API calls

When changes are applied in the CI or CD flow, it would be better if we can tailer the output we present in the pipeline towards our users.Today we can print a impact COMPARISON SUMMARY REPORT & COMPARISON COUNTS REPORT it would be nice if we ...
2 days ago in Db2 CI/CD Expert for z/OS 0 Submitted

Improve deployment plan API usage

When you create or run a deployment plan, we receive an UUID from the API, with this UUID we can retrieve the status. However we can only use that UUID once. When we try to reuse it we get an error mentioning that the UUID no longer exists. At thi...
2 days ago in Db2 CI/CD Expert 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

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

Advanced site rules validating cross object types

when creating site rules, we are currently limited to validate attributes within the same object. We require site rules that validates settings based on a different object.Examples: When table starts wet REF_ we want it to be in BP1When a table is...
14 days ago in Db2 CI/CD Expert for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow same user for create and approve pull request

Approving a pull request cannot happen bij the same user that created the pull request. Although this might be a best practice, when running these API's in a pipeline, it doesn't really make sense. This authorisation/check will most likely happen ...
14 days ago in Db2 CI/CD Expert for z/OS 0 Under review