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Search results: watsonx Code Assistant Ideas

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Enable WCA to read from multiple repos and help in referencing the files across repos

When WCA is able to read multiple repos, it becomes useful for the user to reference multiple files and leverage the different combinations for code generations. For example, I have a linux code base in one repo . My second repo is a test framewor...

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...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Planned for future release

Improved support for Sections in Refactoring Assistant

Currently when refactoring Cobol code where there is a "PERFORM <section>" statement, the refactored code does not pull in the SECTION headings which causes the PERFORM lines to fail.
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

ADDI should export the flow graphs into multiples pages of a pdf instead of single page.

Most of the code is bit complicated and when the flow-graph is exported to a pdf, the entire graph is stored in a single page, rendering the graph dense and incomprehensible. Instead the graph should be split into multiple pages to ensure that the...
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Identified duplicate section of the codes across programs should be suggested/recommended as candidate for refactoring

Once the duplicate section of the codes across programs are identified, then RA should suggest this as a candidate to create a service.
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

ADDI should support identification of duplication sections/paragraphs across a set of programs

ADDI should support identification of duplication sections/paragraphs across a set of programs. There are lot of code with this redundant/duplicate section/paragraphs and all those would be a target for refactoring to simplify the code complexity ...
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

PL/I demo assets

PL/I demo assets required to show case MVP and use cases to clients. Canadian Tire corp only has PL/I code and we require PL/I development support as well as PL/I samples to be loaded in Techzone to ramp up Understand phase with clients and then p...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Refactoring Assistant: Automatically link to newly refactored code

The refactoring Assistant slice the monolith cobol into micro services. But then, you have a phase where you must adapt both cobol (the monolith, to make a "call" to the Refactored Cobol ans the refactored Cobol where you need to have a linkage se...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

watsonx Code assistant for Z COBOL to PYTHON transformation

currently watsonx Code assistant for Z only produces JAVA output. The number of PYTHON programmers around the world far exceeds those of JAVA and is exponentially increasing each year. There are billions of lines of COBOL still requiring maintenan...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Expose VSCode Extension Settings to Customize WCA CodeLens

I would like an option to disable the CodeLens WCA context buttons in the VSCode editor. My preference is to copy/paste code snippets into the chat window, or to use the keyboard shortcuts, so the CodeLens buttons often just get in the way and clu...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 3 Functionality already exists