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IMS Catalog utility FABXCATM has no exclude option during DECODE IMS DBD or PSB Source

FABXCATM is only allow wild card option to DECODE DBD and PSB from IMS catalog and cannot exclude specific member level option. Please add this new function.
16 days ago in IMS Library Integrity Utilities for z/OS  / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Validation check function update

In March 2022, we will switch Microfocus's configuration management system (ZMF) to BMC's ISPW.After switching to ISPW, the validation check function that is executed by connecting to ZMF cannot be used.Therefore, please update so that the validat...
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

SAS Program Usage Analysis in IBM Application Discovery

Our mainframe environment includes significant SAS batch processing for critical business functions (financial analytics, actuarial reporting, data transformations). Currently, IBM Application Discovery cannot analyze SAS programs to extract: Prog...

Enable project details on Analyze client without accessing AD Dashboard

Hi Team, I have 2 projects ( Main & Resilience ) in Production server. Both the projects are now available on Analyze client at any time . if i want to enable resilience project to be visible in analyze client when i do Make process on Main pr...

ADDI/wca4z: Windows Authentication mode and mixed mode authentication for the SQL Server Database Engine at setup time

ADDI/wca4z: Windows Authentication mode and mixed mode authentication for the SQL Server Database Engine at setup time For security reasons, my client explicitly requests the use of Windows authentication, not SQL. However, currently, the only sup...
6 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Collecting Db2 Integrated Synchronization counters in IZDS

IBM Z Decision Support currently does not collect Db2 Integrated Synchronization IFCID 2 counters. In Db2 component table DB2_IDAA_STAT_S_H/D there is column REPLICATION_CPU, but is only populated with data for CDC replication. Since we have migra...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Not under consideration

Provide capability to easily find a CICS transaction without knowing which project contains it

In large shops with a large application inventory, a developer trying to understand a transaction flow in CICS; would need to be able to easily find that transaction and generate a Transaction call graph. Today, the developer has to know which pro...
6 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

AD - Enable automatic user group detection/association in the import users option under CCS

We have been upgrading AD system and found that CCS has an option to import only multiple users into new system. However after importing users, we need to manually select and add (using + ICON) to associate to the respective user group. This is qu...
10 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Allow LIST RECORD consumption to be drifted to ZIIP processors.

Now, IZDS and IZPCA allow the derivation of a COLLECT to ZIIP, but it is not possible to do the same with a LIST RECORD.It would be good to study the possibility of adapting the LIST RECORD as well.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Not under consideration

Improvement of the flow job graph

Users of Application Discovery at SG need to be able to visualize the entire structure of a JCL by having information on the names of the steps, the programs used and the input and output files of each step. The flow job function seemed to be the ...
almost 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration