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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 Ideas

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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 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Needs more information

Intellij IDEA support as IDE

My client - Bank of China, is very interested in WCA4Z Cobol2Java. The challenge now is their standardized Java IDE is Intellij IDEA which is very popular among Java developers. Currently, WCA4Z only support VS Code as IDE. To maximize the target ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Not under consideration

WCA4Z to support ASSEMBLER language

Lot of mainframe applications are written in ASSEMBLER language. Clients are interested in modernizing those applications.
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Future consideration

WCA PL/1 to Java support

WCA PL/1 to Java.

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...
8 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

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...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 2 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 17 hours ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Submitted

WCA Plugin for CP4D Jupyter notebooks

Customers who have CP4D and want WCA to inject Python directly into their Jupytper notebooks.
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 4 Submitted

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

The WCA chat should let the user up/down-arrow to cycle through recent input text, rather than having to scroll/copy/scroll/paste

Useful when experimenting to find a better prompt, because simpler for user than scrolling back to find the input they want to repeat or paste/edit to do something slightly different
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 1 Submitted