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watsonx Code Assistant Ideas

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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...
3 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 2 Under review

Track % of code generated in yaml file - automatically measuring WCA adoption

NOTE: This relates to another of my ideas, using (G) as an identifier for generated content: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/WCAST-I-297 Explanation: With a short (G) identifier for generated code, there's no indication which model was used or whether...
3 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

(G) for generated like © for copyright

Simply put, instead of: // Assisted by watsonx Code Assistant // Code generated by WCA@IBM in this programming language is not approved for use in IBM product development. def some_generated_function(data): return process(data) This: # (G) ibm-gra...
3 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

Extend the source java version support for java version upgrades

Many of our customers are currently using Java versions 4 or 5, and in the past few years have been trying to update to versions 17 or 21. wCA only supports source versions from 6, so it is not possible to update versions 4 or 5. As the competing ...
5 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Enterprise Java 1 Under review

Identify pieces of code that break code standards then provide recommendations on fixes

Developers would benefit from the assistant being able to identify pieces of code that break code standards (industry and internal standards) such as how to handle exceptions and proper termination routines. Then recommend fixes to a developer tha...
6 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

/resolve - error resolution command in watsonx Code Assistant

This type of command would give ideas where to look for when specific error message shows in our program. Error resolution command is a must because our competition (chat-gpt) has it and it has shown its usefulness as programmers are changing thei...
2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Under review

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...
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 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 ...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Not under consideration

WCA4z Missing native support for GIT

BBVA complaint that in WCA4z is missing the native support for GIT.
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Needs more information

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

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