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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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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

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....
4 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...
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

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...
8 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...
8 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

When NLU suggests relevant controls based on risk description currently OpenPages is associating selected controls to the risk

when NLU suggest relevant controls based on risk description currently openpages is associating selected controls to the risk. Instead if it can prompt the user wtih two options like "Associate/create" then it will be good for user to choose
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas 2 Delivered

Greater variation of colors available in the Task Focused UI

The TFUI has limited colours ranges. Red Amber Yellow Green is a standard colour configuration utilised within our organisation, however there is no amber available. It would be good if the colour range was fully configurable
about 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 3 Delivered

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

Show text size next to Simple String Text fields on Loss Event Entry application

Users who submit Events/Incidents via the Loss Event Entry Application need to provide a description of what caused the event and the field that absorbs this information in OpenPages is a Simple Text field (4000 bytes) only. It would be good if th...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

TFUI - Enable Workflow Validations and Operations on SAVE

Many of the data quality rules span objects - Eg. Impact booking date must be GT Event Occurrence Date. Form rules only allow for rules on a single object so cannot be used. Workflow rules for validations and operations only run on workflow transi...
about 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 3 Not under consideration