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wca4z : AD Connect support bidirectional text conversion : possibility to retrieve COBOL programs and copybooks with Arabic and Latin characters.

When retrieve COBOL programs and copybooks with Arabic and Latin characters, the Arabic characters are written from left to right, instead of right to left. Today AD Connect does not support bidirectional encoding. example : AD Connect is configur...
9 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Future consideration

Deep Business Context-Aware Smart Code Suggestion Accelerator

Generic LLM-based code assistant tools lack the deep understanding of critical business applications logic needed to generate highly precise and optimized migrated source code. Without this contextual awareness, their suggestions are often too gen...
2 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

WCA4Z COA should scan for //JOBLIB in JCL and use it instead of //STEPLIB to pickup profiler load module

Some of the JCL will have many steps and the user have to modify ever single step for profiler load module. If we can able to add profiler load module PDS in //JOBLIB then it will avoid coding //STEPLIB in multiple places inside the JCL
4 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

Include transform feature from Natural to Java

Some SPGI clients (public tenders within them) that are using IBM's Mainframe are requesting to convert from Natural language (SoftwareAG) to Java in order to modernise it. They would like to avoid using ADABAS and start using relational databases...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Needs more information

AD Build call dynamic resolution outside paragraph

As discussed with the AD development team, the dynamic resolution works only with MOVEs inside the same paragraph with the CALL, plus a case when you have a MOVE to the same paragraph just before the PERFORM <para-with-the-call>, with the co...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Intellij IDEA support as IDE

My client - Bank of China, is very interested in WCA4Z Cobol2Java. The challenge now is their standardized Java IDE is Intellij IDEA which is very popular among Java developers. Currently, WCA4Z only support VS Code as IDE. To maximize the target ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Not under consideration

Add Read/Write information to export of Where Used - Cobol Variable analysis

The Where Used - COBOL Variable analysis shows which statements will read or write to the variable. However this information is not included in the CSV export of the tree view. A workaround could be to filter the view on the statement types, but t...
28 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Exclude dead code from various data/variable analysis

Various reports and analysis are useful to understand how variables are used in the application. Field Usage Report, Field Expansion Report, Where Used Variables (but report and tree view). All of these are useful to understand impact of changes, ...
28 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

WCA PL/1 to Java support

WCA PL/1 to Java.
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 4

WCA4Z to support ASSEMBLER language

Lot of mainframe applications are written in ASSEMBLER language. Clients are interested in modernizing those applications.
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Future consideration

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