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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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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...

Collection "ansible.controller" not included in the Base Training Model

Two clients have asked the ability to develop some ansible playbooks using the config as code ansible collection from Red Hat named 'ansible.controller'. This collection is not part of the default base granite LLM model training. Instead the 'awx....

Require API based capability for feeding in Natural Language to generate the Ansible code. As well ability to feed in parallel inputs (against the sequential one requiring user intervention today)

Automation and parallel processing

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
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

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...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

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...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

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...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

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.
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Not under consideration

Developers need the ability to interact with the LLM

Today the prompting and communication with the LLM is done for the transformation service using the ADDI meta data. Doing this, provides a very opinionated class hierarchy and code generation. This works will for customers with limited skills. But...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

A search function is required to search "Key Conditions" because it is very difficult to find a paragraph when the list contains many hundreds of paragraph names

This is beneficial to anyone is attempting to refactor a COBOL program into a new service. The list of Key Conditions that is generated can be hundreds of lines long (we have one program with 889 paragraphs) and it is VERY difficult to locate a de...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted