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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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Cobol Migration Assistance (Migration from 4.x to 6.x)

There are many customers still struggling to complete Cobol Migrations. Sun Life Canada is one example where its taking them long time to migrate COBOL 4.x to 6x. We can introduce a new feature/module within WCA4z to help customers migrate from CO...
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Extension Output Node for Native Python with Graph Output tab like R and Python for Spark

We would like to create a graph in an Extension Output Node using Native Python libraries such as matplotlib or seaborn. Currently, when we connect to the Modeler Server from the Modeler Client and run the node, the graph is not output and the str...
4 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

SPSS Bulk loader feature in CP4D

In an application modernization scenario, using some cloud pak for data components, the customer needs to read (and write) a large amount of data on various data sources, including Teradata, Hive and Impala. In existing and production workflows in...
6 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 2 Future consideration

Run process in sandbox in workbench

I can't imagine, that this is not possible yet, but since tm1forum was not able to support, nor Google nor ChatGPT , this seems to be missing or being a bug. I was not able to run a process in a sandbox in a workbench of PAW. From the architect I'...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Bitemporal tables and missing highest quantiles

If a user issues FOR BUSINESS_TIME AS OF clause against a bitemporal table, DB2 translates it to a where clause with two range predicates against business_time columns. In our system following situation occurs quite frequently: 1) At all time...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Future consideration

Add Option to Migrate Datasets that were Recalled as Part of a Scan

Please add an option so a user can specify that the LAT job submitted migrates any datasets (thinking archive log datasets here) that it had to recall to complete the scan. An example would be where a user attempts to scan multiple days in the pas...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Enable use of DSN_PROFILE* tables global variables for local workload

At the following link, we see global variables can be used with profile tables. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-for-zos/12?topic=connections-setting-built-in-global-variables-profile-tables However, there is a sentence that mentions the following:...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Ability to view the websheet details in PAW

Once a websheet is added in PAW book, there is currently no way of knowing which websheet had been added later. This leads to confusion when you've multiple versions of the same report published in Applications folder.
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

PAW: unique field in permission setting

In PAW, user’s name is used to identify user (e.g.: when permission setting) even through name is not unique parameter. When you have two users with same name, you cannot recognize them when permissions setting. Therefore, we suggest that unique f...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Support Rate Limiting in the LSF Proxy

We have a case where users, if left to their own accords will not eclipse the current supported connections, but in the end will diminish the batch performance if left on their own. So, provide a feature where I can have a configuration file that ...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration