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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Generating Dataset record layout option should be available for the files in program flow graph

Hi Team, Once program flow graph is generated which is having references to files, If we right click on file it shows only Filter and properties option. Currently we should copy the file name and go to explore project , select Dataset record struc...
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Under review

Impact analysis based on Data flow graph

Hi Team, Currently when we generate data flow graph , it goes with JCL/PROC/STEP/DD/Files hierarchy. We can show the control flow clearly from source file to destination file. At the same time if we have to show the data traceability from one of t...
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Under review

WCA4Z - Enhance IBM ADDI with Enterprise-Scale Automation Capabilities

Based on our development setup and recent findings regarding the IBM ADDI component, we have identified several areas where enhanced automation capabilities would significantly improve our onboarding process and overall user experience: 1. RBAC an...
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Enhancing Patch Review Efficiency through WCA Model Integration

Objective: Introduce a review capability within WCA that enables developers to assess code patches with contextual clarity, leveraging model-driven insights to improve traceability, understanding, and decision-making. Rationale: Traditional patch ...

Assembler Code Explanation - Client wants Code Explanation to identify the system call and application calls for Assembler modules

Most of the times, assembler modules are used for system programming. However, some of them might also be used as application modules. It would be beneficial to differentiate the system calls and application calls through the explanation generated.
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Store PARM details when processing JCL

We are trying to identify when certain REXX scripts get called and this is stored as the PARM in the JCL. With the example below, I can see details for the inputs and outputs, but can't find 'OS#QTIM1' stored anywhere: //STEP020 EXEC PGM=IRXJCL,PA...
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Cobol Migration Assistance (Migration from 4.x to 6.x)

There are many customers still struggling to complete Cobol Migrations. For a few clients where its taking them long time to migrate COBOL 4.x to 6x. We can introduce a new feature/module within WCA4z to help customers migrate from COBOL 4.x to 6....
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

If PCBs are passed as pointers, it is not supported in our PL1 compiler.

When clients want to see the relationship btw PL1 and IMSDB, it cannot shown. Since if PCBs are passed as pointers, it is not supported in our PL1 compiler. Background: In our client's current PL/I program, Program Communication Blocks (PCBs) are ...
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Planned for future release

Cobol Explain to be saved as Annocations in AD

It would be useful to be able to save the COBOL Explain text as a annotation in ADDI. Today you can save/insert it as a comment in the cobol code. But if we could save it as an annotation in ADDI, then the explanation would also be available to bu...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

SAS code to python code

There are opportunities where customers are exploring converting SAS code to Python code.
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 3 Not under consideration