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ADDI should export the flow graphs into multiples pages of a pdf instead of single page.

Most of the code is bit complicated and when the flow-graph is exported to a pdf, the entire graph is stored in a single page, rendering the graph dense and incomprehensible. Instead the graph should be split into multiple pages to ensure that the...
about 12 hours ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Identified duplicate section of the codes across programs should be suggested/recommended as candidate for refactoring

Once the duplicate section of the codes across programs are identified, then RA should suggest this as a candidate to create a service.
about 12 hours ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

ADDI should support identification of duplication sections/paragraphs across a set of programs

ADDI should support identification of duplication sections/paragraphs across a set of programs. There are lot of code with this redundant/duplicate section/paragraphs and all those would be a target for refactoring to simplify the code complexity ...
about 12 hours ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

ADDI should include the load time of artifacts in the Project Inventory

Given that the ADDI has role separation between the ADDI admin for project setup/load and build and the Developers/Analysts using the AD client for generating graphs and reports, it is difficult to know when the file was loaded, if at all loaded. ...
about 12 hours ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

ADDI should support CA-Jobtrac scheduler report

The customer has used only CA's Jobtrac scheduler and have tons of reports that needs to be included in the analysis of the mainframe applications.
about 13 hours ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Request for ADDI to support the duplicate detection in assembler

Customer requested ADDI to support the duplicate detection in assembler as well as COBOL and PL/I by the end of 2025.
16 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Request for ADDI to support the detection of unused routines in assembler

Customer requested ADDI to support the detection of unused routines in assembler as well as COBOL and PL/I by the end of 2025.
16 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Enable filtering by object name/type when importing objects from PDS libraries via AD Connect

The client is deploying their mainframe applications to production in large PDS libraries that contain hundreds of thousands objects of different type, belonging to several different applications Therefore ingesting a single application into WCA4Z...
14 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Under review

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...
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Needs more information

Allow multiple IWS subsystems/instances for a single ADDI project

The client has more than one IWS subsystem associated with a single application Currently only one IWS subsystem is allowed for each project, which does not allow the client to import all batch jobs associated with an application in a single proje...
14 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review