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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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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.

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Refactoring Assistant to advise where good spots are to slice COBOL applications.

A developer could be advised by the refactoring assistant what are good points to slice a COBOL program so that they safe a lot of time in analyzing the COBOL code. This will allow the developer to increase the number of modules/programs they can ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Planned for future release

AD - New feature to broadcast message to analyze client users.

Currently AD has no facility to broadcast notification alert to user's community, instead we usually send information to application discovery users via email distributions. This idea is about introducing new feature to notify maintenance alerts w...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Build client virtual folder sort order correction(6.1.3)

After adding files from mainframe, the virtual folder files are sorted based on the member name of different PDSEs but it's not based on the sorted order of both PDSE and members together. Good to have them sorted based on both so it would be easy...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

links in downloaded documents

Many analysis results are shown in PDF documents with links. These documents are lengthy, so it is good to be able to download them to work on it over several days. However, the links between the parts of the document are lost when downloading it....
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Program Callgraph. Where files are used

The graph that shows the program callgraph is very good, but when using it to see where the files are being used, it does so by the label in the program. In our case, that label tends to be generic (e.g. FSALIDA, means exit file). By using the lab...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Nonlinear solver for CPLEX

Add nonlinear optimization capability to CPLEX. Many real-life models are nonlinear by nature. CPLEX solver requires a linear model to work. A good nonlinear solver can often times overperform a linearized form of a real-life model. Having a nonli...
almost 8 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 1 Future consideration

Two pass logic

When a user attempts to delete a record on OpenPages, the system presents them with a pop-up ‘OK' / ‘Cancel'. It's a really good ‘user experience'. We'd like to implement a similar two-pass logic, and being able to utilise this same approach would...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Not under consideration

saving data with a mouse-click instead of writing code through JDBC connector in CSV or other formats

I can currently browse it in the UI/IDE using the various inspectors. It would be nice if I could easily save this data to a file with a mouse click rather than having to write code, or add JDBC connections and rerun the model, etc. Typically what...
almost 4 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Future consideration

Possibility for the testing capabilities that can be used as other usage than compare monotith Cobol to Java/ Cobol from scratch to monolith cobol

The tools could be used for generating Cobol or Java test set for validating any kind of program, refactored or not with no purpose to Transform them with AI (could be a good point for VsCode because zUnit isn't on it). And if it's possible, compa...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Needs more information