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Build client virtual folder sort order correction(6.1.3)

After adding files from mainframe, the virtual folder files are sorted based on the member name of different PDSEs but it's not based on the sorted order of both PDSE and members together. Good to have them sorted based on both so it would be easy...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Support Natural Language (code) with WCA4Z: Refactor / Explain

In Brazil, we have several clients whose entire application landscape is developed in Natural. When we present the watsonx Code Assistant for Z (WCA4Z), these clients show clear interest. However, the only currently applicable capability for Natur...
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

add "extract business rules" function in the understanding 2.0 component

as understanding 2.0 component in v2.6 release, it supports "identify biz rules", it will be help more if there a new function "extract business rules", which would combine the "identify biz rules" and refactor assistant code slicing/extracting fu...
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

ADDI - Program Flow and Flow Chart Updates For Sections in COBOL

ADDI is designed to pick up COBOL Paragraphs. The vendor uses the word SECTION for the COBOL paragraphs. This results in displaying the words FIRST_SENTENCES in the paragraph name in the Program Flow and Flow Chart reports. Example: Code = C100-PR...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

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...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Planned for future release

Create a connection between TADZ and the Understand part of WxCA4z

Hi, It could be very usefull to retrieve information from TADZ on the same User Interface than Application Discovery Dellivery Intelligency. It would help us a lot to sell the product for different persona (developpeur, Business Analyst, System En...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Automating Java Code Fixes in WCA4z with Agentic AI

Business Challenge Current Limitation: The WCA4z tool transforms legacy code into Java. However, the transformed Java code often contains syntax or semantic errors that require significant manual intervention to fix. This process is time-consuming...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

links in downloaded documents

Many analysis results are shown in PDF documents with links. These documents are lengthy, so it is good to be able to download them to work on it over several days. However, the links between the parts of the document are lost when downloading it....
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Program Callgraph. Where files are used

The graph that shows the program callgraph is very good, but when using it to see where the files are being used, it does so by the label in the program. In our case, that label tends to be generic (e.g. FSALIDA, means exit file). By using the lab...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Field Expansion Report.

ADDI analyzes the target variable and the parent record. This is fine, but from the parent record, it jumps to all the other variables in the copy. This greatly broadens the result and adds complexity to the analysis. The only impacts from the par...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review