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watsonx Code Assistant Ideas

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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...
1 day 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

The way Japanese input is handled in the prompt

I'm using WCA on VSCode 1.96.4 / macOS 15.2. When entering Japanese text in the input prompt, I often need to convert characters to kanji. However, pressing Enter to confirm the conversion also sends the input as a message in WCA Assistant Chat, r...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 2 Under review

Two buttons, "Design" and "Implement," on the chatbot to finalize the proper design with promt context before proceeding with implementation.

Currently, the chatbot has a single "GO" button to send prompts and receive results. When users request prompts like generating a complete project, the process combines both design and code implementation. Users refine the prompt iteratively to ac...
15 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Enterprise Java 0 Submitted

WCA Plugin for CP4D Jupyter notebooks

Customers who have CP4D and want WCA to inject Python directly into their Jupytper notebooks.
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 4 Submitted

The WCA chat should let the user up/down-arrow to cycle through recent input text, rather than having to scroll/copy/scroll/paste

Useful when experimenting to find a better prompt, because simpler for user than scrolling back to find the input they want to repeat or paste/edit to do something slightly different
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 1 Submitted

Debug code from terminal output

Based on error message from terminal, WCA should have a button to click to analyze the output together with the code and suggest potential fixes. Currently, users need to copy and paste the error message and context into the chat window which is n...
7 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

Create a map/flow chart of programs based on what you might want to grep, like a structure, function, header, or other piece of text

A huge swathe of time is spent doing greps, opening files, looking for references when trying to identify code changes that need to be made, files that need to be rebuilt, or in trying to architect a new solution. To save time, would be wonderful ...
10 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

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