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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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watsonx Code Assistant (general)

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Use Watsonx to analyze, explain, and convert Synon-generated RPG and COBOL code to Java

The idea is to use IBM’s Watsonx to tackle the challenge of legacy code modernization. Specifically, Watsonx would be leveraged to read and understand Synon-generated RPG and COBOL code. It would provide detailed explainability of the code's funct...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Not under consideration

Have the features and function available on system Z like scanning and refactoring ported to the IBM i COBOL/400

Useful to refactor the COBOL code in IBM i and to be able to migrate it to JAVA eventually. It will benefit all of IBM customers running on the IBM i platform. It should work same way as its working for Z platform.
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Not under consideration

Translate Cobol to Java on IBM i

Clients want to modernize their legacy and monolithic applications built years ago using db2 with Cobol on IBM i. They want to innovate, have a scalable solution, reduce operational risks and HR risks (not rely on deep expertise in cobol resources...
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Future consideration

Expose VSCode Extension Settings to Customize WCA CodeLens

I would like an option to disable the CodeLens WCA context buttons in the VSCode editor. My preference is to copy/paste code snippets into the chat window, or to use the keyboard shortcuts, so the CodeLens buttons often just get in the way and clu...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 2 Functionality already exists

Generalized code assistant RAG use case trainable for multiple languages

Multiple IBM clients have approached me with a request to have a generalized watsonx Code Assistant that combines the existing Granite-code models with a RAG partner use case. Ability to fine tune a granite-code model such that it has the latest i...

SAS code to python code

There are opportunities where customers are exploring converting SAS code to Python code.
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 2 Needs more information

Integration with slack

WCA is useful outside the vscode, and not all developers using vscode. having an integration with slack or as independent plugin. It would be great
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Future consideration

Add hotkeys to interact with WCA context input

Add hotkeys to: Use selected text as context in a fresh chat Use selected context in the current chat Focus the chat text input Would really improve the usability as it wouldn't force your hands off the keyboard, it could also potentially push peo...

watsonx code assistant to allow generating Next-Gen IBM DataStage code from the standalone IBM DataStage

watsonx code assistant to allow generating Next-Gen IBM DataStage code from the standalone IBM DataStage, similar to the capability of generating java code from cobol.
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 1 Not under consideration

Multiple code conversion capabilities

Verizon has released an RFP where they are looking for the ability to convert code between several different languages. A list of the source code languages is in the attached image. Little data has been provided on what language they would convert...
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 1 Not under consideration