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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.

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.

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...
about 6 hours ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

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...
about 7 hours 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...
3 months 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...

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...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Under review

WCA:Latest versions of WCA should be supported on Aqua stack(Eclipse 4.31(2024_03)

The latest versions of WCA does not support the Aqua Eclipse version used by many IBM products. Eclipse 4.31 is considered Long Term Support, via the IBM Eclipse SDK and Aqua teams, and the latest WCA version should provide support for this versio...
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Future consideration

Chat Session Personas to start a new chat session from a user pre-defined set of prompts

I’m picturing something like a way for a user to setup multiple personas/templates, and they could start a new chat session using one of these personas. For example, I may have one persona / template for a Java application running on Liberty, and ...

WCA Plugin for CP4D Jupyter notebooks

Customers who have CP4D and want WCA to inject Python directly into their Jupytper notebooks.
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 4 Future consideration