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Support for Eclipse IDZ in addition to VS Code

100s of developers in my client MetLife using eclipse based IDe
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 8 Future consideration

AD Build call dynamic resolution outside paragraph

As discussed with the AD development team, the dynamic resolution works only with MOVEs inside the same paragraph with the CALL, plus a case when you have a MOVE to the same paragraph just before the PERFORM <para-with-the-call>, with the co...

Use Watsonx to analyze, explain, and convert Synon-generated RPG and COBOL code to Java

The idea is to use IBM’s Watsonx to tackle the challenge of legacy code modernization. Specifically, Watsonx would be leveraged to read and understand Synon-generated RPG and COBOL code. It would provide detailed explainability of the code's funct...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Not under consideration

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 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

Cobol to Java Transformation - Suppress Missing Copybook Error Message when Copybooks are not Required.

When preparing the Cobol to Java transformation, an Exclamation error message may be displayed indicating that copybooks are missing. “COBOL transformation preparation completed. Some copybooks were not found, potentially affecting the transformat...

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

WCA PL/1 to Java support

WCA PL/1 to Java.
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 4 Planned for future release

watsonx Code assistant for Z COBOL to PYTHON transformation

currently watsonx Code assistant for Z only produces JAVA output. The number of PYTHON programmers around the world far exceeds those of JAVA and is exponentially increasing each year. There are billions of lines of COBOL still requiring maintenan...
2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas 0 Submitted

Have the features and function available on system Z like scanning and refactoring ported to the IBM i COBOL/400

Useful to refactor the COBOL code in IBM i and to be able to migrate it to JAVA eventually. It will benefit all of IBM customers running on the IBM i platform. It should work same way as its working for Z platform.
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Not under consideration

WCA4Z to support ASSEMBLER language

Lot of mainframe applications are written in ASSEMBLER language. Clients are interested in modernizing those applications.
12 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Under review