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watsonx Code Assistant for Z

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Support of Java datatypes required for financial applications, e.g BigDecimal

Support of Java datatypes required for financial applications, e.g BigDecimal BigDecimals are a crucial datatype when handling Finance data

Support of SQL in Java for Z (SQLJ)

Support for static SQL in Java for z (SQLJ is standard by IBM). NB: Certain requirements prevent use of dynamic SQL (e.g. static build plans, trackable user authorisation)
12 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Use an AI Assistant to rewrite obsolete COBOL applications

Cleanly rewrite old, more or less monolithic COBOL code to improve the maintainability of COBOL applications.
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Functionality already exists

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...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Needs more information

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...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Migration assistant from ADS/IDMS to Cobol or Java

My client is very interested in watsonx Code Assistant for Z as a modernization tool to help them incrementally transform their ADS code into Cobol or Java within z/OS
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Not under consideration

Context based slicing for given variable for both include and working storage  and bulk slicing for these.

This is a functionality already in consideration by product management for Refactoring Assistant.
8 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Refactor Assistant: Not cleaning up dead code while slicing the code block for service / new program creation

Case number TS015819461 Please find the recommendation for Refactor Assistant on cleaning up dead code while slicing the code block for service / new program creation. Please open a case as Mark requested to improve RA tool capability. #5 – Refact...
8 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Train, increase and adapt the explainability phase for customer needs

The possibility for the explainability asset to have something like a dictionary, a repository... in order to train the model and having tailored fit answer. This repository would be populated by the customer and his assets and specification (for ...

Possibility for the testing capabilities that can be used as other usage than compare monotith Cobol to Java/ Cobol from scratch to monolith cobol

The tools could be used for generating Cobol or Java test set for validating any kind of program, refactored or not with no purpose to Transform them with AI (could be a good point for VsCode because zUnit isn't on it). And if it's possible, compa...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Needs more information