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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 Ideas

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The way Japanese input is handled in the prompt

I'm using WCA on VSCode 1.96.4 / macOS 15.2. When entering Japanese text in the input prompt, I often need to convert characters to kanji. However, pressing Enter to confirm the conversion also sends the input as a message in WCA Assistant Chat, r...

/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...

Track % of code generated in yaml file - automatically measuring WCA adoption

NOTE: This relates to another of my ideas, using (G) as an identifier for generated content: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/WCAST-I-297 Explanation: With a short (G) identifier for generated code, there's no indication which model was used or whether...

(G) for generated like © for copyright

Simply put, instead of: // Assisted by watsonx Code Assistant // Code generated by WCA@IBM in this programming language is not approved for use in IBM product development. def some_generated_function(data): return process(data) This: # (G) ibm-gra...

Extend the source java version support for java version upgrades

Many of our customers are currently using Java versions 4 or 5, and in the past few years have been trying to update to versions 17 or 21. wCA only supports source versions from 6, so it is not possible to update versions 4 or 5. As the competing ...

Identify pieces of code that break code standards then provide recommendations on fixes

Developers would benefit from the assistant being able to identify pieces of code that break code standards (industry and internal standards) such as how to handle exceptions and proper termination routines. Then recommend fixes to a developer tha...
13 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

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...
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

WCA4z ADDI to be a real-time snapshot

BBVA wanted the code in ADDI to be a real-time snapshot, or almost real-time. If a developer made a change that modified a dependency, they wanted the rest of the developers to be able to see it quickly and not have to wait until the next day.
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

WCA4z ADDI limit loading components

BBVA detected that when loading 30,000 components, ADDI becomes extremely slow and sometimes stops responding. We know that you recommended not to place more than 30,000 components per project or repository; however, BBVA indicates that the relati...
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

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...