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watsonx Code Assistant Ideas

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PL/I demo assets

PL/I demo assets required to show case MVP and use cases to clients. Canadian Tire corp only has PL/I code and we require PL/I development support as well as PL/I samples to be loaded in Techzone to ramp up Understand phase with clients and then p...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

Improvement on TMI Scanners

This is the feedback from SLF regarding TMI scanners -> Create a DB2 instance template for Watsonx Code Assistant. When the user is provisioning the DB2 instance, they can select the template instead of creating a vanilla Db2 instance. This tem...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

Translate Cobol to Java on IBM i

Clients want to modernize their legacy and monolithic applications built years ago using db2 with Cobol on IBM i. They want to innovate, have a scalable solution, reduce operational risks and HR risks (not rely on deep expertise in cobol resources...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Future consideration

Intellij IDEA support as IDE

My client - Bank of China, is very interested in WCA4Z Cobol2Java. The challenge now is their standardized Java IDE is Intellij IDEA which is very popular among Java developers. Currently, WCA4Z only support VS Code as IDE. To maximize the target ...
12 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Expose VSCode Extension Settings to Customize WCA CodeLens

I would like an option to disable the CodeLens WCA context buttons in the VSCode editor. My preference is to copy/paste code snippets into the chat window, or to use the keyboard shortcuts, so the CodeLens buttons often just get in the way and clu...
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 2 Functionality already exists

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

Support for Japanese for watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed.

Several Japanese customers & business partners are requesting Japanese support for watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible. Many companies in Japan use Ansible to automate their day to day tasks in IT Operation. While Japanese customers and...

Integration with slack

WCA is useful outside the vscode, and not all developers using vscode. having an integration with slack or as independent plugin. It would be great
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Future consideration

Generalized code assistant RAG use case trainable for multiple languages

Multiple IBM clients have approached me with a request to have a generalized watsonx Code Assistant that combines the existing Granite-code models with a RAG partner use case. Ability to fine tune a granite-code model such that it has the latest i...