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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Support for Eclipse IDZ in addition to VS Code

100s of developers in my client MetLife using eclipse based IDe
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 8 Future consideration

WCA PL/1 to Java support

WCA PL/1 to Java.
12 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 4 Planned for future release

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...

WCA4Z to support ASSEMBLER language

Lot of mainframe applications are written in ASSEMBLER language. Clients are interested in modernizing those applications.
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Under review

Intellij IDEA support as IDE

My client - Bank of China, is very interested in WCA4Z Cobol2Java. The challenge now is their standardized Java IDE is Intellij IDEA which is very popular among Java developers. Currently, WCA4Z only support VS Code as IDE. To maximize the target ...
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

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

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

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...

Refactoring Assistant: Automatically link to newly refactored code

The refactoring Assistant slice the monolith cobol into micro services. But then, you have a phase where you must adapt both cobol (the monolith, to make a "call" to the Refactored Cobol ans the refactored Cobol where you need to have a linkage se...
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

(Automatic) Test generation from COBOL code

e.g. generation of test cases out of COBOL code for full reliability
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Needs more information