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The PL/I macro names should be referable in WCA4Z Understand

When preprocessing PL/I source code in WCA4Z Understand(ADDI), macros are visualized in their expanded state, which makes it impossible to identify the original macro names in Application Discovery (AD)Analyze Client. To improve usability for appl...

Extend watsonx Code Assistant for Z – Optimize to support PL/I performance analysis and optimization.

Many enterprise z/OS customers still run important workloads in PL/I, especially in banking and insurance. Today Optimize works well for COBOL, but PL/I is not supported, so teams still rely on manual analysis or a few experienced PL/I experts to ...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 9 Submitted

AI Agent for Stress test on IBM Z

At Fall 2025 AI Council, multiple clients indicated that an AI agent for Stress test on Z will be vital to their organization. Donna Dillenberger had indicated that IBM Research is playing with this item, so this requirement should be directed to ...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

Provide capability to configure Profiles for the UI (ADDI)

We are a customer using COBOL written with a Macro Framework and a complex middleware layer. To support this, we configured ADDI with pre-processor extensibility. Our developers have diverse requirements regarding what they want to see in the call...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

It would be really helpful for WXCA4Z to be able to ingest Assembler language code and be able to explain it. It would also be helpful to be able to transform assembler to Metal C and COBOL code to C/C++.

While we run some JAVA code, most of our code is COBOL code that is optimized for the z15 and above. We don't really want to convert that code to JAVA, but would love to convert it to C/C++. Also, as us old-time assembler coders retire, we need a ...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

Fix 'Pack LRSN field' description on help panel ALAZT780

From the Tutorial , option '78 LOAD expert options' the description of the 'Pack LRSN field' is incorrect."It does not change the definition of the target header column (if used), which is still a CHAR(12) field, but would contain only the packed ...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 0 Under review

Add millisecond to DTLRPT time field

The detail in the DTLRT include the time as hh.mm.ss but missing the milliseconds. This is import when we investigate the sequence of events of two processes or between sysplexes. (Replication Exceptions). One millisecond could make a difference.
about 1 month ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 0 Under review

Increase width of GENRPT and SUMREPT

These reports are only 80 bytes wide. GENRPT: the report could be wider to accommodate a wider table name of 30 characters.Or, If an option could be added to produce a one line report, meaning for every table per URID, the report will be 240 chara...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 0 Under review

Increase length of Table name on all reports

On all DTLRPT, DTLSUMR, GENRPT, SUMREPT the table name length is 18 characters and overflow to next line. Since V8 of DB2, the table name was extended to VARCHAR(128). When creating a program to read any of these reports, one has to include extra ...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 0 Under review

Adjust header on DTLRPT to the length on Report row length

On the DTLRPT the record length of data portion can be selected but the customer, but the header is not adjusted to the same width [Report row length..... 15000 (00080-32752) ]
about 1 month ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 0 Under review