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    Obrowse enhancement

    In z/OS UNIX, the obrowse command should be able to handle acii tagged files (e.g. UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1) in the same way as command oedit does.
    4 days ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Submitted

    Enable create for a sequential extended dataset to take advantage of pervasive encryption

    It was recently found that even though we were passing a DATACLAS that specified EXTENDED attributes, ZOAU appears to be overriding it and it was still landing as a BASIC or LARGE dataset type. We had tried multiple combinations and research befor...
    about 1 month ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Submitted

    Add option to customize the buildreport.html to include custom records

    DBB allows the addition of custom records with AnyTypeRecords and PropertiesRecord https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/adffz/dbb/3.0.x?topic=apis-build-report#user-defined-record-types but even though the information from these records is added to the bui...
    14 days ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Under review

    CICS PA transaction profiling reports to support RATESEC and RATEMIN fields

    For my month end profiling reports to be more useful then it would be good if these fields were supported. See IBM case TS021549209
    8 days ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 0 Under review

    Manage host attached DASD with Cinder to attach and detach to ICIC VMs

    In some storage performance needs scenarios (i.e. Openshift ODF Disks) is required to have very good disk performance, that cannot be achieved using QCOW2 files. So it could be vey useful to direct attach/deatch a DASD (online in the hosts and not...
    5 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

    ICIC Compatibility with Pure Storage (Terraform Dependency)

    IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center (ICIC) currently does not support integration with Pure Storage platforms. This limitation prevents ICIC from being deployed as the infrastructure management layer. This constraint has implications because Terraform...
    19 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

    Enhance jsub to be event driven

    It would be great if we could enhance jsub to be notified by an even when the submission has finished, rather than by polling the JES log. In our testing, especially for short running jobs, which make up the majority of our test suite, we have fou...
    9 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Under review

    Please add a "COPY membername" command to IMS DDL that would allow us to include copybooks containing commonly used PCBs (SCHEMAs)

    This idea would better align with how traditional PSB source is managed in our shop. We rely on the COPY command supported by the Assembly of the PSB in the PSBGEN process. A similar capability for DDL would ease the transition to DDL.
    about 2 months ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 0 Under review

    Allow z/OS DFSMS Cloud Data Manager (CDM) and the Hybrid Cloud Data Management function ability to override the SMS METADATA in different SMS configurations

    Our configuration has two different SMS Configurations and thus some DATA CLASS and/or MANAGEMENT Class definitions may not exist across both SMS configurations. Currently, the only work-around (as suggested in the IBM Case) is to pre-allocate the...
    about 2 months ago in IBM z/OS DFSMS Cloud Data Manager 0 Submitted

    Make custom CLI arguments available to the build context

    Today, the zBuilder framework accepts command line options to configure the various lifecycles. However, the variables defined and passed in via the CLI are not automatically available to the language task configuration. Idea is to enable the fram...
    15 days ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Future consideration

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