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Incorporate patch RFE SPCS-I-999 Fix ID: sym-7.3.2.2-build602311 to Symphony Fix Pack 1

The docker controller patch for supporting API versions 1.24 - 1.44 was delivered for Symphony Fix Pack 2 (Fix ID: sym-7.3.2.2-build602311). Can you please add the same patch to Symphony Fix Pack 1? Thank you Elsa
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 4 Not under consideration

Validate client on containers

As discused on case TS018079953, the clients are not validated to run in containers, which is a functionality we are aldready using in our clusters. It will be needed to support this functionality in order to have support for the problems we are f...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Needs more information

Hostfactory round up the number of on-demand slots to 1 when it falls between 0 and 1

When choosing percentOnDemand=10%, quite often we get 0 slot calculated on the ondemand server therefore there is no slot on the server and leave the task pending forever. We'd like to suggest that hostfactory round up the number of on-demand slot...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 4

Add Read/Write information to export of Where Used - Cobol Variable analysis

The Where Used - COBOL Variable analysis shows which statements will read or write to the variable. However this information is not included in the CSV export of the tree view. A workaround could be to filter the view on the statement types, but t...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Exclude dead code from various data/variable analysis

Various reports and analysis are useful to understand how variables are used in the application. Field Usage Report, Field Expansion Report, Where Used Variables (but report and tree view). All of these are useful to understand impact of changes, ...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

We need ability to update DB password using command line in non-interactive fashion. (Not interactive shell)

We need to update our database account password regularly and in turn we have to update password in database configuration file datasource.xml . This will be automated process in Wells Fargo and we need to be able to run dbconfig.sh command to upd...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Functionality already exists

Track % of code generated in yaml file - automatically measuring WCA adoption

NOTE: This relates to another of my ideas, using (G) as an identifier for generated content: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/WCAST-I-297 Explanation: With a short (G) identifier for generated code, there's no indication which model was used or whether...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Under review

(G) for generated like © for copyright

Simply put, instead of: // Assisted by watsonx Code Assistant // Code generated by WCA@IBM in this programming language is not approved for use in IBM product development. def some_generated_function(data): return process(data) This: # (G) ibm-gra...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Not under consideration

Extend the source java version support for java version upgrades

Many of our customers are currently using Java versions 4 or 5, and in the past few years have been trying to update to versions 17 or 21. wCA only supports source versions from 6, so it is not possible to update versions 4 or 5. As the competing ...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Enterprise Java 1 Not under consideration

Optimize task execution with task rerun inf in TaskContext

When a Symphony task fails, it is currently re-dispatched and rerun, with each rerun treated as a new execution. The application service code is unaware of whether the task is running for the first time or being retried. We propose including task ...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted