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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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WCA4z Missing native support for GIT

BBVA complaint that in WCA4z is missing the native support for GIT.

WCA4z ADDI to be a real-time snapshot

BBVA wanted the code in ADDI to be a real-time snapshot, or almost real-time. If a developer made a change that modified a dependency, they wanted the rest of the developers to be able to see it quickly and not have to wait until the next day.

WCA4z ADDI limit loading components

BBVA detected that when loading 30,000 components, ADDI becomes extremely slow and sometimes stops responding. We know that you recommended not to place more than 30,000 components per project or repository; however, BBVA indicates that the relati...

Development or test stories for an Agile Development Team for the Explain or RA

Customer is looking for a capability that will draft initial development or test stories for an Agile Development Team. It would be great if functionality was provided either out of Refactor Assistant or even Explain to build these user stories fo...
about 16 hours ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Discovery Analyze Client should not access database directly

Today, the ADDI Analyze client needs direct access to the DB2 LUW or MS SQL Server database. In a production environments, customers keep "ALL" databases in a special zone within the network. Typically, application servers only have access to data...

Document Data flow and transformations when using synch\sort.

During a recent Discovery workshop for Watsonx code assistant for Z, customer is looking to modernize one of their monolith applications Power One, requested the following idea be logged as an RFE (request for enhancement) as this will benefit the...

Review code comments, when analyzing orphaned code.

During a recent Discovery workshop for Watsonx code assistant for Z, customer is looking to modernize one of their monolith applications Power One, requested the following idea be logged as an RFE (request for enhancement) as this will benefit the...

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...
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Cobol Explain to be saved as Annocations in AD

It would be useful to be able to save the COBOL Explain text as a annotation in ADDI. Today you can save/insert it as a comment in the cobol code. But if we could save it as an annotation in ADDI, then the explanation would also be available to bu...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Refactoring Assistant to advise where good spots are to slice COBOL applications.

A developer could be advised by the refactoring assistant what are good points to slice a COBOL program so that they safe a lot of time in analyzing the COBOL code. This will allow the developer to increase the number of modules/programs they can ...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review