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    Deprecated throw call

    There are throw (...) in symphonyDE/DE732/7.3.2/include/soam.h. This pattern repeats on many lines. throw (...) was deprecated in c++11 and was removed in 17. Please remove the throw part. There are ways to make it compatible with all 11:3
    4 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

    AI Agent for Stress test on IBM Z

    At Fall 2025 AI Council, multiple clients indicated that an AI agent for Stress test on Z will be vital to their organization. Donna Dillenberger had indicated that IBM Research is playing with this item, so this requirement should be directed to ...
    4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

    WXCA4Z to explain Assembler language code, transform assembler to Metal C and COBOL code to C/C++

    While we run some JAVA code, most of our code is COBOL code that is optimized for the z15 and above. We don't really want to convert that code to JAVA, but would love to convert it to C/C++. Also, as us old-time assembler coders retire, we need a ...
    4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

    Customizable ManagementHosts Resource group

    I would like to request that IBM consider adding enhanced flexibility to the Multicluster SMC software by allowing the Management resource group to be customizable. Specifically, to have the ability to add a new resource group in addition to the s...
    4 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2

    Request for support IMS call with assembler in ADDI callgraph

    ADDI cannot show IMS call with assembler in callgraph.Callgraph shows ASMTDLI but nothing beyond.It will be a nice tool for assembler analisys If ADDI support IMS call with assembler.
    12 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

    An enhancement on the graph so that the program to transaction link is displayed somehow even when that program is complied as part of the AD Project

    When building CSD data Configuration objects, ADDI is not recognizing some of the transactions in some of the Groups within the CSD.
    4 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. For a few clients 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 COBOL 4.x to 6....
    over 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

    Ordering Impact Analysis Report

    The Impact Analysis Report answer I get from this option is a poorly organized document that does not allow for analyzing by element. In other words, it does not permit analyzing a program, a JCL, etc., since it is organized by variable and file n...
    9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

    ADDI should be compatible to work with CICS CPSM

    Lot of customer of ADDI has CICS CPSM implemented and they don't have CICS CSD. And currently ADDI is not compatible with CICS CPSM so it blocking for customers to generated reports from ADDI like transaction call graph and other reports related t...
    9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

    Use certified hashing function bcrypt/Argon2 in users.xml

    Symphony 7.3.2 uses AES-128 encryption for the passwords storage in the local users.xml file, which is not compliant with Citi Cryptography Standard. Only below hashing algorithms are approved for passwords hashing. Citi requests IBM to use bcrypt...
    9 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

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