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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...

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 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Under review

Two buttons, "Design" and "Implement," on the chatbot to finalize the proper design with promt context before proceeding with implementation.

Currently, the chatbot has a single "GO" button to send prompts and receive results. When users request prompts like generating a complete project, the process combines both design and code implementation. Users refine the prompt iteratively to ac...

Aauto graph should support exporting the report into .csv format like call-graphs

Many z/OS banking customers have been running critical enterprise applications on the mainframe for decades. The WCA4Z/Understand/ADDI tooling provides significant value by helping users understand the interdependencies, complexities, and integrat...
11 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

WCA4Z COA should scan for //JOBLIB in JCL and use it instead of //STEPLIB to pickup profiler load module

Some of the JCL will have many steps and the user have to modify ever single step for profiler load module. If we can able to add profiler load module PDS in //JOBLIB then it will avoid coding //STEPLIB in multiple places inside the JCL
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

WCA@IBM Visual Studio Code extension should support web version

If I launch the extension in Visual Studio Code desktop, it works perfectly.But when I tried to launch it in the Dev Spaces / Che-Code ( Visual Studio Code downstream projects ), I faced some issues. First, the login URL is a bit different. This i...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Under review

/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...

Request for support IMS call with assembler in ADDI callgraph

ADDI cannot show IMS call with assembler in callgraph. Callgraph shows ASMTDLI but nothing beyond. It will be a nice tool for assembler analisys If ADDI support IMS call with assembler.
25 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Debug code from terminal output

Based on error message from terminal, WCA should have a button to click to analyze the output together with the code and suggest potential fixes. Currently, users need to copy and paste the error message and context into the chat window which is n...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Under review

run.ai support for WCA4Z

One of our banking customers in Canada uses the run.ai platform to manage its GPU farm, and it would like to deploy WCA4Z on top of run.ai to manage the GPUs involved with the product's LLM models.
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review