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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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WCA PL/1 to Java support

WCA PL/1 to Java.
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 3 Under review

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 ...
24 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Read an old COBOL program and document it in english such that a business user could read and understand it

With COBOL programmers retiring, clients struggle to identify critical business logic hidden in old COBOL code. This ability is also important for refactoring old COBOL code, creating APIs and Integration points, and in deciding which capabilities...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Under review

An AI assistant to test COBOL code rewriting

For cases WCAT-I-1, WCAT-I-8, WCAT-I-11, WCAT-I-16, WCAT-I-17, it would be useful to have a tool for automating the generation of non-regression test cases, comparing the results of executing the original COBOL program and the transformed COBOL pr...
13 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 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.
13 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Use an AI Assistant to rewrite obsolete COBOL applications

Cleanly rewrite old, more or less monolithic COBOL code to improve the maintainability of COBOL applications.
13 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Under review

WCA4Z to support ASSEMBLER language

Lot of mainframe applications are written in ASSEMBLER language. Clients are interested in modernizing those applications.
13 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Automatic migration of legacy Java to current Java

My client, and I guess many others, have a significant legacy Java environment. This requires a lot of manual effort to migrate them to current (Java17+) environments. Using WebSphere Application Server Migration Assistant, OpenRewrite and generat...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant / watsonx Code Assistant for Enterprise Java 0 Under review

Make available model IDs available via a drop down in the Lightspeed Admin console instead of requiring copy/paste

1. Copy and Paste is an Extra step (extra friction) in the setup process 2. In the future if there are multiple base models/tuned models to choose from this will significantly improve an organizations ability to move between models.