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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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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...
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Not under consideration

/resolve - error resolution command in watsonx Code Assistant

This type of command would give ideas where to look for when specific error message shows in our program. Error resolution command is a must because our competition (chat-gpt) has it and it has shown its usefulness as programmers are changing thei...

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.
5 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...
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Not under consideration

SAS code to python code

There are opportunities where customers are exploring converting SAS code to Python code.
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 3 Future consideration

SSO - Federation for developer users

Currently with SaaS deployment only admins requires IBM ID, developers need then to be added 'locally' by administrator.We have a RFP for WCA (general) SaaS, target is 5K developers. 5K developers is using managing manually, and client is asking f...

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
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 1 Not under consideration

Inline code complete and cursor shortcut to generate code directly where my cursor is

I want to begin to type code manually, and have the assistant present an autocompletion based on what it thinks I am trying to do. Let me either ignore it or use it. When I want to use natural language to generate code, let me keep focus in the ed...

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...
4 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...