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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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watsonx Code Assistant for Z

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Refactoring Assistant: Automatically link to newly refactored code

The refactoring Assistant slice the monolith cobol into micro services. But then, you have a phase where you must adapt both cobol (the monolith, to make a "call" to the Refactored Cobol ans the refactored Cobol where you need to have a linkage se...
6 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. Sun Life Canada is one example 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 CO...
12 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

GenAI assistant to talk with ADDI

It would be great if we could interact with all the data that ADDI has using a GenAI like assistant, so It would be like asking the most senior developer/product owner about all the components that addi discovers.
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Support for HP NS COBOL

CVS has code written in HP NS COBOL. There is very poor understanding of this code. If Watsonx Code Assistant for z could "handle" this code, it would be of TREMENDOUS benefit to CVS (and anyone else who has HP NS COBOL). While we know that -- at ...

ObjectStar to Java code conversion

My customer has a bunch of ObjectStar code running a key business system and wants to migrate that to Java and DB2.
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

(Automatic) Test generation from COBOL code

e.g. generation of test cases out of COBOL code for full reliability
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Needs more information

Explainability of generated Java code

it's crucial to understand the rationale behind the generated Java code including but not restricting to the reference of Cobol code lines
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Needs more information

Coherence in the transformation (re-use of same code / tables)

Coherence in the transformation (re-use of same code / tables) - code assistant should have a knowledge of already translated parts and should be able to reuse them when re-occuring
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

An AI assistant to transform generated COBOL into readable COBOL

Transform COBOL code generated by a tool such as Pacbase or RPP into code that a COBOL developer could have written.
12 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Idenitfy code with duplicate functionality

A few customers I have talked to have asked how WCA4Z can identify duplicate code for them as part of the understand and refactor phases. Customers tend to have duplicate code across their applications that can be consolidated into reusable servic...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Planned for future release