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Status Submitted
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 17, 2025

Extend watsonx Code Assistant for Z – Optimize to support PL/I performance analysis and optimization.

Many enterprise z/OS customers still run important workloads in PL/I, especially in banking and insurance. Today Optimize works well for COBOL, but PL/I is not supported, so teams still rely on manual analysis or a few experienced PL/I experts to understand CPU-heavy issues.

Needed By Quarter
  • Guest
    Dec 18, 2025

    Yes, we hear this request very frequently from customers as well.

  • Guest
    Dec 17, 2025

    Yes, this feature is highly requested for lots of clients

  • Guest
    Dec 17, 2025

    Yes, this feature is highly important to the client.

  • Guest
    Dec 17, 2025

    Many client need this function in China and Taiwan indeed.

  • Guest
    Dec 17, 2025

    Yes, this request would be very helpful.
    We see this repeatedly in customer conversations, especially during modernization and AI enablement discussions.Many banking and public sector customers still run critical PL/I workloads on z/OS.The lack of PL/I performance analysis and optimization support is a real pain point and often becomes a blocker in modernization discussions.

  • Guest
    Dec 17, 2025

    We definitely need this feature, please help us  bring it to life.

  • Guest
    Dec 17, 2025

    Yes, this feature is highly important to the client.

  • Guest
    Dec 17, 2025

    Yes, this feature is highly requested.

  • Guest
    Dec 17, 2025

    Our customers do need this function , including POST and TBB . They asked this function for a long time , they are ESSO customer .