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watsonx Code Assistant Ideas

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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
8 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 3 Not under consideration

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...

(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...

WCA4z Missing native support for GIT

BBVA complaint that in WCA4z is missing the native support for GIT.
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Needs more information

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 ...

WCA4Z to support ASSEMBLER language

Lot of mainframe applications are written in ASSEMBLER language. Clients are interested in modernizing those applications.
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Future consideration

Identify pieces of code that break code standards then provide recommendations on fixes

Developers would benefit from the assistant being able to identify pieces of code that break code standards (industry and internal standards) such as how to handle exceptions and proper termination routines. Then recommend fixes to a developer tha...
27 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Expanding Explain feature to do batch and inserting directly in Confluence templates

The customer would like a few additional features added to the Explain feature. First, they would like batch processing, where they can select several COBOL programs and allow them to process them to gather the explanation all at once and the poss...
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

WCA PL/1 to Java support

WCA PL/1 to Java.

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 ...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Planned for future release