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Search results: watsonx Code Assistant for Z

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Coherence in the transformation (re-use of same code / tables)

Coherence in the transformation (re-use of same code / tables) - code assistant should have a knowledge of already translated parts and should be able to reuse them when re-occuring
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

An AI assistant to test COBOL code rewriting

For cases WCAT-I-1, WCAT-I-8, WCAT-I-11, WCAT-I-16, WCAT-I-17, it would be useful to have a tool for automating the generation of non-regression test cases, comparing the results of executing the original COBOL program and the transformed COBOL pr...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Delivered

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.
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Not under consideration

WCA4Z in Z Open Editor needs to access IBM Cloud through a proxy server

When Z Open Editor clients can only access IBM Cloud through a proxy server, attempts to set the API key fail with an error: 2024-03-21T13:45:09.845-04:00 ERROR: 2024-03-21T17:45:09.845Z: watsonx Code Assistant error response: [/v1/wca/codegen/c2j...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Delivered

Deep Business Context-Aware Smart Code Suggestion Accelerator

Generic LLM-based code assistant tools lack the deep understanding of critical business applications logic needed to generate highly precise and optimized migrated source code. Without this contextual awareness, their suggestions are often too gen...
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Future consideration

Exclude dead code from various data/variable analysis

Various reports and analysis are useful to understand how variables are used in the application. Field Usage Report, Field Expansion Report, Where Used Variables (but report and tree view). All of these are useful to understand impact of changes, ...
7 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.
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Functionality already exists

ObjectStar to Java code conversion

My customer has a bunch of ObjectStar code running a key business system and wants to migrate that to Java and DB2.
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Not under 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....
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Development or test stories for an Agile Development Team for the Explain or RA

Customer is looking for a capability that will draft initial development or test stories for an Agile Development Team. It would be great if functionality was provided either out of Refactor Assistant or even Explain to build these user stories fo...
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Not under consideration