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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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watsonx Code Assistant Ideas

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Add hotkeys to interact with WCA context input

Add hotkeys to: Use selected text as context in a fresh chat Use selected context in the current chat Focus the chat text input Would really improve the usability as it wouldn't force your hands off the keyboard, it could also potentially push peo...

Developers need the ability to interact with the LLM

Today the prompting and communication with the LLM is done for the transformation service using the ADDI meta data. Doing this, provides a very opinionated class hierarchy and code generation. This works will for customers with limited skills. But...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Needs more information

A search function is required to search "Key Conditions" because it is very difficult to find a paragraph when the list contains many hundreds of paragraph names

This is beneficial to anyone is attempting to refactor a COBOL program into a new service. The list of Key Conditions that is generated can be hundreds of lines long (we have one program with 889 paragraphs) and it is VERY difficult to locate a de...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Make available model IDs available via a drop down in the Lightspeed Admin console instead of requiring copy/paste

1. Copy and Paste is an Extra step (extra friction) in the setup process 2. In the future if there are multiple base models/tuned models to choose from this will significantly improve an organizations ability to move between models.
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible 0 Future consideration

watsonx code assistant to allow generating Next-Gen IBM DataStage code from the standalone IBM DataStage

watsonx code assistant to allow generating Next-Gen IBM DataStage code from the standalone IBM DataStage, similar to the capability of generating java code from cobol.
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 1 Not under consideration

Multiple code conversion capabilities

Verizon has released an RFP where they are looking for the ability to convert code between several different languages. A list of the source code languages is in the attached image. Little data has been provided on what language they would convert...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 1 Not under consideration

Migration assistant from ADS/IDMS to Cobol or Java

My client is very interested in watsonx Code Assistant for Z as a modernization tool to help them incrementally transform their ADS code into Cobol or Java within z/OS
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Not under consideration

Context based slicing for given variable for both include and working storage  and bulk slicing for these.

This is a functionality already in consideration by product management for Refactoring Assistant.
8 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Refactor Assistant: Not cleaning up dead code while slicing the code block for service / new program creation

Case number TS015819461 Please find the recommendation for Refactor Assistant on cleaning up dead code while slicing the code block for service / new program creation. Please open a case as Mark requested to improve RA tool capability. #5 – Refact...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Train, increase and adapt the explainability phase for customer needs

The possibility for the explainability asset to have something like a dictionary, a repository... in order to train the model and having tailored fit answer. This repository would be populated by the customer and his assets and specification (for ...