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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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Ability to add select an email recipient based on the location / folder path for notifications sent via OOTB workflow

Currently, email notifications in the OOTB Workflow can only be designed to send to users based on the User/groups and whether as ‘Assignees’ or ‘Subscribers’ in a workflow stage. It cannot be designed/configured based on the location of the objec...
8 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 1 Under review

Reverse engineer ZPARM to ASM format like in DSNTIJUZ

Very often the source code of any given ZPARM for a Db2 for z/OS subsystem "disappears". Be it holiday, be it by accident, be it CANCEL after submit... Whatever the reason, the problem is the same: You have a running version of the ZPARM that does...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Request to Simplify and Improve ADDI Visualization for New User Onboarding

We have received repeated feedback from our client regarding the current visualization of flow diagrams and reports within ADDI. They have expressed that many of the generated diagrams appear overly dense and difficult to interpret, especially for...
2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Watson Code Assistant Plugin for CP4D Jupyter notebooks

Customers who have CP4D and want WCA to inject Python directly into their Jupytper notebooks. This will improve developer productivity immensely.
about 1 month ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 1 Under review

Db2 start command message output and return code

If a Db2 database is in RO mode at database level and you issue a -STA DB(DBName) SP(TSName) ACCESS(RW) command via batch, it outputs "DSNTDDIS 'START DATABASE' NORMAL COMPLETION" which is misleading because the table still cannot be loaded therea...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Code Explain should support macros

Many customers use macros to generate COBOL to simplify the way that they wrote code, especially for standard processes. When developers select their code in the IDE to generate an explanation, it won't always be standard COBOL thanks to these mac...
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Under review

CHCCLP - Return Code Handling in Mainframe and LUW platform

Provide return codes for individual CHCCLP instructions and add features to CHCCLP script to evaluate return code (e.g., if...then...else...) before proceeding with subsequent instructions. Additionally, include an option to set return codes back ...
about 2 months ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 1 Under review

Enahncement to DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT setting

Regarding the use of DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT=ON. This env variable will defer memory commitment, asynchronously in the background, for faster completion of ACTIVATE DATABASE. This helps to improve the database activation for large memory systems w...
9 months ago in Db2 1 Under review

CP4D Audit: Ability to trace activities related to assets’ execution for the Watson Studio service (and the CP4D Platform)

CP4D Audit: Ability to trace activities related to assets’ execution for the Watson Studio service (and the CP4D Platform) Client would like to be able to trace the activities related to the execution of an asset. With reference to the Watson Stud...
7 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Improve usability of CodeBlock creation in GUI Tool flow

When writing a CodeBlock in the Tool flow through the GUI, it is difficult to know the correct syntax. For example, a declaration such as @tool(name="") is required, but this is not obvious to users. It would be very helpful to display sample code...
30 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review