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watsonx Code Assistant Ideas

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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 ...

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...
22 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

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

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...
2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

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

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

SSO - Federation for developer users

Currently with SaaS deployment only admins requires IBM ID, developers need then to be added 'locally' by administrator.We have a RFP for WCA (general) SaaS, target is 5K developers. 5K developers is using managing manually, and client is asking f...

Using the VS Code wca.core.chat.focus Open chat command, put keyboard focus in the chat window

VS Code offers commands as a keyboard-driven approach. I can hit cmd+shift+p, type wca chat, hit enter, and the WCA window is right there ...... except to get keyboard focus in the chat box i have to hit shift+tab twice! Put keyboard focus in the ...

write the initial prompt as a comment in the playbook when using the playbook generation feature

When someone uses the WCA4A's playbook generation feature (generating a full playbook thanks to a single prompt), it would be useful (some customers hasve asked for this) if the initial prompt used to build the playbook could be written as a comme...