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VSCode interface for ADDI

VSCode is becoming the main IDE that is supported by IBM. Eclipse as an IDE and programs built on Eclipse RCP are starting to be phased out at customers.Bringing the main ADDI GUI from RCP to VSCode thus enables usability in the future.
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z Future consideration

Include transform feature from Natural to Java

Some SPGI clients (public tenders within them) that are using IBM's Mainframe are requesting to convert from Natural language (SoftwareAG) to Java in order to modernise it. They would like to avoid using ADABAS and start using relational databases...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z Future consideration

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...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z Future consideration

wca4z : AD Connect support bidirectional text conversion : possibility to retrieve COBOL programs and copybooks with Arabic and Latin characters.

When retrieve COBOL programs and copybooks with Arabic and Latin characters, the Arabic characters are written from left to right, instead of right to left. Today AD Connect does not support bidirectional encoding. example : AD Connect is configur...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z Future consideration

IMS environments should be implemented for the AD PL1 compiler so AD would show the IBM DBs correctly used in PL1 programs.

Application Discovery (AD) Analyze Client doesn't show IMS DB names correctly in IMS/DB Usage analysis. This is because even though the PL1 compiler in AD Build Client recongnizes PLITDLI calls as calls to IMS databases, PCB parameters from the ma...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z Future consideration

Cobol Migration Assistance (Migration from 4.x to 6.x)

There are many customers still struggling to complete Cobol Migrations. For a few clients 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 COBOL 4.x to 6....
over 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z Future consideration

Optimizing the opening of the Build Configuration tool

This change request follows the TS003720822 incident on the Build Configuration tool.Loading the list of projects in Build Configuration is very long in production.The loading time is 40 minutes for about 650 projects in production.For the record,...
almost 6 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z Future consideration

PL1/DL1 passing pointers for PCB's and CEETDLI support

NRB cannot use full functionality of PL1 with DL1 access as they use CEETDLI as DL1 Interface program which is NOT supported. Other problem is that the PCB's are passed as pointers which is also not supported.
almost 5 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z Future consideration

Coherence in the transformation (re-use of same code / tables)

Coherence in the transformation (re-use of same code / tables) - code assistant should have a knowledge of already translated parts and should be able to reuse them when re-occuring
over 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z Future consideration

Misidentification of IMS Segment

This RFE is to improve the identification of graph elements when using IMS CBLTDLI and EXEC DLI calls. In this situation (case TS004447136 Escalation SRR: 31080) BILRTP00.16969 is misidentified and shown in the graph as an IMS database segment.Thi...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z Future consideration