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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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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...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Enterprise Java 0 Future consideration

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
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 3 Not under consideration

WCA4Z to support ASSEMBLER language

Lot of mainframe applications are written in ASSEMBLER language. Clients are interested in modernizing those applications.

WCA PL/1 to Java support

WCA PL/1 to Java.

Allow multiple IWS subsystems/instances for a single ADDI project

The client has more than one IWS subsystem associated with a single application Currently only one IWS subsystem is allowed for each project, which does not allow the client to import all batch jobs associated with an application in a single proje...
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 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...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Future consideration

Chat Session Personas to start a new chat session from a user pre-defined set of prompts

I’m picturing something like a way for a user to setup multiple personas/templates, and they could start a new chat session using one of these personas. For example, I may have one persona / template for a Java application running on Liberty, and ...
8 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Future consideration

IMS environments should be implemented for the AD PL1 compiler so AD would show the IBM DBs correctly used in PL1 programs.

Application Discovery (AD) Analyze Client doesn't show IMS DB names correctly in IMS/DB Usage analysis. This is because even though the PL1 compiler in AD Build Client recongnizes PLITDLI calls as calls to IMS databases, PCB parameters from the ma...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Future consideration

Refactoring Assistant to advise where good spots are to slice COBOL applications.

A developer could be advised by the refactoring assistant what are good points to slice a COBOL program so that they safe a lot of time in analyzing the COBOL code. This will allow the developer to increase the number of modules/programs they can ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Planned for future release

Raise learning of large codebases to be a dominant requirement

As part of Linux kernel team, I have to deal with a very large codebase. Booting up with this code base is not trivial and takes a very long time. WCA team should consider the learning task a highly important feature. This can save thousands of ma...
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 3 Functionality already exists