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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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PL/I demo assets

PL/I demo assets required to show case MVP and use cases to clients. Canadian Tire corp only has PL/I code and we require PL/I development support as well as PL/I samples to be loaded in Techzone to ramp up Understand phase with clients and then p...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

SPSS Statistics needs a menu item to return all windows to their default locations

IBM SPSS Statistics users often move between docked and undocked environments where they have access to just a laptop display up to many monitors extending and/or mirroring that laptop display. Currently SPSS Statistics saves the location of open ...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Under review

watsonx Code assistant for Z COBOL to PYTHON transformation

currently watsonx Code assistant for Z only produces JAVA output. The number of PYTHON programmers around the world far exceeds those of JAVA and is exponentially increasing each year. There are billions of lines of COBOL still requiring maintenan...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Expose VSCode Extension Settings to Customize WCA CodeLens

I would like an option to disable the CodeLens WCA context buttons in the VSCode editor. My preference is to copy/paste code snippets into the chat window, or to use the keyboard shortcuts, so the CodeLens buttons often just get in the way and clu...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 3 Functionality already exists

Enhancing Patch Review Efficiency through WCA Model Integration

Objective: Introduce a review capability within WCA that enables developers to assess code patches with contextual clarity, leveraging model-driven insights to improve traceability, understanding, and decision-making. Rationale: Traditional patch ...

(Automatic) Test generation from COBOL code

e.g. generation of test cases out of COBOL code for full reliability
over 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Needs more information

Explainability of generated Java code

it's crucial to understand the rationale behind the generated Java code including but not restricting to the reference of Cobol code lines
over 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Needs more information

Coherence in the transformation (re-use of same code / tables)

Coherence in the transformation (re-use of same code / tables) - code assistant should have a knowledge of already translated parts and should be able to reuse them when re-occuring
over 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Assembler Code Explanation - Client wants Code Explanation to identify the system call and application calls for Assembler modules

Most of the times, assembler modules are used for system programming. However, some of them might also be used as application modules. It would be beneficial to differentiate the system calls and application calls through the explanation generated.
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

An AI assistant to transform generated COBOL into readable COBOL

Transform COBOL code generated by a tool such as Pacbase or RPP into code that a COBOL developer could have written.
over 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Not under consideration