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Allow multiple IWS subsystems/instances for a single ADDI project

The client has more than one IWS subsystem associated with a single application Currently only one IWS subsystem is allowed for each project, which does not allow the client to import all batch jobs associated with an application in a single proje...
about 16 hours ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

Enable filtering by object name/type when importing objects from PDS libraries via AD Connect

The client is deploying their mainframe applications to production in large PDS libraries that contain hundreds of thousands objects of different type, belonging to several different applications Therefore ingesting a single application into WCA4Z...
about 16 hours ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

Request for ADDI to support the duplicate detection in assembler

Customer requested ADDI to support the duplicate detection in assembler as well as COBOL and PL/I by the end of 2025.

Request for ADDI to support the detection of unused routines in assembler

Customer requested ADDI to support the detection of unused routines in assembler as well as COBOL and PL/I by the end of 2025.

Aauto graph should support exporting the report into .csv format like call-graphs

Many z/OS banking customers have been running critical enterprise applications on the mainframe for decades. The WCA4Z/Understand/ADDI tooling provides significant value by helping users understand the interdependencies, complexities, and integrat...
17 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Request for support IMS call with assembler in ADDI callgraph

ADDI cannot show IMS call with assembler in callgraph. Callgraph shows ASMTDLI but nothing beyond. It will be a nice tool for assembler analisys If ADDI support IMS call with assembler.
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

run.ai support for WCA4Z

One of our banking customers in Canada uses the run.ai platform to manage its GPU farm, and it would like to deploy WCA4Z on top of run.ai to manage the GPUs involved with the product's LLM models.
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Deep Business Context-Aware Smart Code Suggestion Accelerator

Generic LLM-based code assistant tools lack the deep understanding of critical business applications logic needed to generate highly precise and optimized migrated source code. Without this contextual awareness, their suggestions are often too gen...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Future consideration

WCA4Z COA should scan for //JOBLIB in JCL and use it instead of //STEPLIB to pickup profiler load module

Some of the JCL will have many steps and the user have to modify ever single step for profiler load module. If we can able to add profiler load module PDS in //JOBLIB then it will avoid coding //STEPLIB in multiple places inside the JCL
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

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 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Under review