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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Idenitfy code with duplicate functionality

A few customers I have talked to have asked how WCA4Z can identify duplicate code for them as part of the understand and refactor phases. Customers tend to have duplicate code across their applications that can be consolidated into reusable servic...
over 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Planned for future release

If PCBs are passed as pointers, it is not supported in our PL1 compiler.

When clients want to see the relationship btw PL1 and IMSDB, it cannot shown. Since if PCBs are passed as pointers, it is not supported in our PL1 compiler. Background: In our client's current PL/I program, Program Communication Blocks (PCBs) are ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Planned for future release

ADDI - Program Flow and Flow Chart Updates For Sections in COBOL

ADDI is designed to pick up COBOL Paragraphs. The vendor uses the word SECTION for the COBOL paragraphs. This results in displaying the words FIRST_SENTENCES in the paragraph name in the Program Flow and Flow Chart reports. Example: Code = C100-PR...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

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...
about 1 year 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...
about 1 year 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...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

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...
over 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 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...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Not under consideration

Failing of flapping SFP interfaces

System doesn't take any action when an interfaces keeps flapping and has a huge error count for packets. Those errors have significant impact on performance and automatic failing of components causing issues is required.
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Detailed dataset flow diagram

ADDI or WCA4Z Understand need more detailed dataset flow diagram and linking to source feature to win customer.What customer expected to ADDI was that in addition to visualizations like the attached detailed dataflow diagram with information of pr...