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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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watsonx Code Assistant Ideas

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Code Explain should support macros

Many customers use macros to generate COBOL to simplify the way that they wrote code, especially for standard processes. When developers select their code in the IDE to generate an explanation, it won't always be standard COBOL thanks to these mac...

WCA4Z Explanation should display error messages when using translation to native language

WCA4Z Explanation displays errors when the generation of the explanation fails, for example if a call to the API "/explanation/PL1?level=SIMPLE" fails with the error: "stop_reason":"max_tokens". However, no error is displayed if the error happens ...
20 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 3 Under review

Add Traditional Chinese support for WCA4Z Explanation and Chat features.

Currently, WCA4Z does not support Traditional Chinese in its Explanation and Chat functionalities, which has become a significant barrier for adoption among clients in Taiwan. Many customers have expressed that Traditional Chinese resources are cr...
16 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 11 Under review

Create a connection between TADZ and the Understand part of WxCA4z

Hi, It could be very usefull to retrieve information from TADZ on the same User Interface than Application Discovery Dellivery Intelligency. It would help us a lot to sell the product for different persona (developpeur, Business Analyst, System En...

Enable WatsonX Code Assistant (WCA) to support MCP servers

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an emerging open standard that enables AI assistants to retrieve structured, contextual information from external sources—such as CMSs, bug trackers (e.g., Jira, Confluence), database schemas, UI design tools (e.g.,...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 4 Future consideration

Automating Java Code Fixes in WCA4z with Agentic AI

Business Challenge Current Limitation: The WCA4z tool transforms legacy code into Java. However, the transformed Java code often contains syntax or semantic errors that require significant manual intervention to fix. This process is time-consuming...

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...
5 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...
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 2 Future consideration

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