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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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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

Store PARM details when processing JCL

We are trying to identify when certain REXX scripts get called and this is stored as the PARM in the JCL. With the example below, I can see details for the inputs and outputs, but can't find 'OS#QTIM1' stored anywhere: //STEP020 EXEC PGM=IRXJCL,PA...
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

GenAI assistant to talk with ADDI

It would be great if we could interact with all the data that ADDI has using a GenAI like assistant, so It would be like asking the most senior developer/product owner about all the components that addi discovers.

Support for associating files and data sets for COBOL programs that do not have file definitions

In COBOL programs (*1) that realizes file access by calling the subroutines responsible for the access method, there is a restriction that the file name to be accessed cannot be associated with the data set name. It is possible to define the assoc...
8 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Feature Request – Store Job Schedule Information in Repository Database

We propose that IBM Optim should provide an option to store job schedule definitions directly in the repository database, alongside other metadata. This would allow: - Automatic inclusion of schedules in repository backups. - Easier migration of s...
8 months ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Submitted

Support settings for DEX oidc upstream connector in dashboard

Setting up ADDI/DEX with oidc as upstream connector instead of ldap to support smartcard logon thru external provider is working as excpected. But configuration needs to be done directly in the dex.conf file instead of the dashboard. This means th...
8 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

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 ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 1 Not under consideration

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...

Support for complex Git Repos for WCA4Z Understand

Today you need to manually add all folders from a Git Repo if you want to synchronize to a WCA4Z Understand/AD project. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/addi/6.1.3?topic=commands-iv-use-cases-best-practices . We need a way to specify root folders, and ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration