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2024-11-21 |
watsonx-code-assistant |
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{{site.data.keyword.wca_full}} is a portfolio of purpose-built, generative AI-assisted products that are built to accelerate code and content generation and increase developer productivity, with trust, security, and compliance at its core. It provides pretrained models based on specific programming languages to provide trust and efficiency for accurate code and content generation. {: shortdesc}
{{site.data.keyword.wca_full_notm}}: Harness generative AI and advanced automation to create enterprise-ready code
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{{site.data.keyword.wca_full_notm}} is an innovative, generative AI coding companion that offers robust, contextually aware assistance for popular programming languages including Go, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, TypeScript, and more. Seamlessly integrated into your IDE, you can accelerate your productivity and simplify coding tasks, all with trust, security, and compliance.
- AI-powered coding tasks: Code generation, explanation, unit test, creation, AI-derived code documentation, and more.
- Enterprise Java modernization: Generative AI and automation-assisted modernization for Java enterprise applications.
- Chat for code: Free-form AI conversational chat for planning applications and writing code.
- Prebuilt chat commands: Use optimized prompts for specific tasks.
- Integrated directly into IDEs: Available directly within Visual Studio Code and Eclipse, integrating seamlessly with your workflow.
To get started:
- Explore pricing plans{: external}
- Set up your {{site.data.keyword.wca_short}} service in {{site.data.keyword.cloud_notm}}
- Install the IDE extension or plugin
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[Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed]{: tag-red}
You can use {{site.data.keyword.wcaal_short}} to write Ansible playbooks with AI-generated recommendations. Purpose-built to accelerate IT Automation, the service delivers Ansible content recommendations that adhere to accepted enterprise standards. {: shortdesc}
{{site.data.keyword.wcaal_short_cap}} uses IBM foundation models to provide code recommendations directly in your Visual Studio Code development environment. You can create task prompts from natural language requests to generate Ansible code. When you purchase the Standard plan, you can also tune the IBM base code model on your data so that it generates code suggestions that are customized for your enterprise standards.
For more information about pricing plan options, see {{site.data.keyword.wcaal_full_notm}} pricing plans.
For cloud administrator setup instructions, see Setting up {{site.data.keyword.wcaal_short}} in {{site.data.keyword.cloud_notm}}.
For more information about {{site.data.keyword.wcaal_short}}, including Visual Studio Code configuration instructions, see the Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed with IBM watsonx Code Assistant User Guide{: external}.
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[{{site.data.keyword.wcaz_short}}]{: tag-dark-teal}
Use the power of generative AI to help you modernize COBOL business services to object-oriented Java code. {: shortdesc}
{{site.data.keyword.wcaz_short_cap}} provides an AI-driven interface to interpret, refactor, and transform your code. Use your existing IBM Z tools and the Z Open Editor Visual Studio Code extension to convert your COBOL code to Java.
Before you get started, make sure you have alignment with your peers. To get started, you need your OS admins and DevOps specialists to install and configure the solution. Then, developers can use {{site.data.keyword.wcaz_short}} to modernize your apps.
For cloud administrator setup instructions, see Setting up {{site.data.keyword.wcaz_short}} in {{site.data.keyword.cloud_notm}}.
After you complete your initial setup, use the {{site.data.keyword.wcaz_short}} documentation{: external} for full instructions about configuration and getting started as quickly as possible.