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Search results: watsonx Code Assistant Ideas

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Enhancing Patch Review Efficiency through WCA Model Integration

Objective: Introduce a review capability within WCA that enables developers to assess code patches with contextual clarity, leveraging model-driven insights to improve traceability, understanding, and decision-making. Rationale: Traditional patch ...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

/resolve - error resolution command in watsonx Code Assistant

This type of command would give ideas where to look for when specific error message shows in our program. Error resolution command is a must because our competition (chat-gpt) has it and it has shown its usefulness as programmers are changing thei...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Future consideration

Assembler Code Explanation - Client wants Code Explanation to identify the system call and application calls for Assembler modules

Most of the times, assembler modules are used for system programming. However, some of them might also be used as application modules. It would be beneficial to differentiate the system calls and application calls through the explanation generated.
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Refactoring Assistant to advise where good spots are to slice COBOL applications.

A developer could be advised by the refactoring assistant what are good points to slice a COBOL program so that they safe a lot of time in analyzing the COBOL code. This will allow the developer to increase the number of modules/programs they can ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Planned for future release

Support for associating files and data sets for COBOL programs that do not have file definitions

In COBOL programs (*1) that realizes file access by calling the subroutines responsible for the access method, there is a restriction that the file name to be accessed cannot be associated with the data set name. It is possible to define the assoc...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

WCA4Z - Enhance IBM ADDI with Enterprise-Scale Automation Capabilities

Based on our development setup and recent findings regarding the IBM ADDI component, we have identified several areas where enhanced automation capabilities would significantly improve our onboarding process and overall user experience: 1. RBAC an...
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Raise learning of large codebases to be a dominant requirement

As part of Linux kernel team, I have to deal with a very large codebase. Booting up with this code base is not trivial and takes a very long time. WCA team should consider the learning task a highly important feature. This can save thousands of ma...
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 3 Functionality already exists

WCA4Z COA should scan for //JOBLIB in JCL and use it instead of //STEPLIB to pickup profiler load module

Some of the JCL will have many steps and the user have to modify ever single step for profiler load module. If we can able to add profiler load module PDS in //JOBLIB then it will avoid coding //STEPLIB in multiple places inside the JCL
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WCA4z ADDI to be a real-time snapshot

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BBVA wanted the code in ADDI to be a real-time snapshot, or almost real-time. If a developer made a change that modified a dependency, they wanted the rest of the developers to be able to see it quickly and not have to wait until the next day.
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Needs more information

Support Natural Language (code) with WCA4Z: Refactor / Explain

In Brazil, we have several clients whose entire application landscape is developed in Natural. When we present the watsonx Code Assistant for Z (WCA4Z), these clients show clear interest. However, the only currently applicable capability for Natur...
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration