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Support for complex Git Repos for WCA4Z Understand

Today you need to manually add all folders from a Git Repo if you want to synchronize to a WCA4Z Understand/AD project. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/addi/6.1.3?topic=commands-iv-use-cases-best-practices . We need a way to specify root folders, and ...
about 24 hours ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

WCA4z Missing native support for GIT

BBVA complaint that in WCA4z is missing the native support for GIT.
29 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Needs more information

WCA4z ADDI to be a real-time snapshot

BBVA wanted the code in ADDI to be a real-time snapshot, or almost real-time. If a developer made a change that modified a dependency, they wanted the rest of the developers to be able to see it quickly and not have to wait until the next day.
29 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

WCA4z ADDI limit loading components

BBVA detected that when loading 30,000 components, ADDI becomes extremely slow and sometimes stops responding. We know that you recommended not to place more than 30,000 components per project or repository; however, BBVA indicates that the relati...
29 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

AD Build call dynamic resolution outside paragraph

As discussed with the AD development team, the dynamic resolution works only with MOVEs inside the same paragraph with the CALL, plus a case when you have a MOVE to the same paragraph just before the PERFORM <para-with-the-call>, with the co...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Larger program limits must be supported by the Refactoring Assistant component.

We are unable to proceed with the POC because of this RA size restriction. This enhancement would benefit the client and CE. The Refactoring assistant is encountering an error when loading a program with ~1200 paragraphs. The error: IAYSD0023E A p...
14 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Discovery Analyze Client should not access database directly

Today, the ADDI Analyze client needs direct access to the DB2 LUW or MS SQL Server database. In a production environments, customers keep "ALL" databases in a special zone within the network. Typically, application servers only have access to data...
30 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Z Refactoring Assistant - Add support for Linux distributions other than RHEL

WCA4z Refactoring Assistant component requires Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 8 or later.NOSI ( THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL INSURANCE (NOSI)-EG ) needs WCA4Z to support other Linux distributions, mainly Ubuntu or Suse.We must ope...
16 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Cobol Explain to be saved as Annocations in AD

It would be useful to be able to save the COBOL Explain text as a annotation in ADDI. Today you can save/insert it as a comment in the cobol code. But if we could save it as an annotation in ADDI, then the explanation would also be available to bu...
2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

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