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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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watsonx Code Assistant for Z

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Idenitfy code with duplicate functionality

A few customers I have talked to have asked how WCA4Z can identify duplicate code for them as part of the understand and refactor phases. Customers tend to have duplicate code across their applications that can be consolidated into reusable servic...
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Planned for future release

(Automatic) Test generation from COBOL code

e.g. generation of test cases out of COBOL code for full reliability
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Needs more information

Support self-implemented common services / library functions

e.g. abend handling, error information generation, commit handling, …
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Support of Java datatypes required for financial applications, e.g BigDecimal

Support of Java datatypes required for financial applications, e.g BigDecimal BigDecimals are a crucial datatype when handling Finance data
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Support of SQL in Java for Z (SQLJ)

Support for static SQL in Java for z (SQLJ is standard by IBM). NB: Certain requirements prevent use of dynamic SQL (e.g. static build plans, trackable user authorisation)
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

An AI assistant to transform generated COBOL into readable COBOL

Transform COBOL code generated by a tool such as Pacbase or RPP into code that a COBOL developer could have written.
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Use an AI Assistant to rewrite obsolete COBOL applications

Cleanly rewrite old, more or less monolithic COBOL code to improve the maintainability of COBOL applications.
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Functionality already exists

WCA4Z to support ASSEMBLER language

Lot of mainframe applications are written in ASSEMBLER language. Clients are interested in modernizing those applications.
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Tracking refactored code blocks as they are sliced in refactoring assistant

When slicing code blocks in the Refactoring Assistant, it would be helpful if there was some tracking so that the user knows what has been sliced previously. Even if this tracking is just for the current session or workbook, this would be helpful....
20 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Utilizing WCA for mainframes outside of Z and servers like IBM Power/Also utilizing it for Microfocus COBOL

Currently, client has an insurance claims application hosted on IBM Power systems written in microfocus COBOL and wanting to use WCA to modernize to Java.