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An enhancement on the graph so that the program to transaction link is displayed somehow even when that program is complied as part of the AD Project

When building CSD data Configuration objects, ADDI is not recognizing some of the transactions in some of the Groups within the CSD.

Improve synchronization process

Reduces time spent during component synchronization, when components are transferred from z/OS into AD server. Idea is like instead of doing full sync for all datasets (PDS/MVS) in the project, making some quick pre-scan, that would indicate if an...

Provide artifact store for IBM Java libraries

IBM Semeru for Z ships with a number of Z specific libraries that can be used to interface with traditional Z subsystems like RACF, or that have useful utilities like the JZOS library. The problem is that, when developing an application to run on ...
8 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 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...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

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...

Write all logs to disk at regular intervals so progress can be identified if the exe throws an un-trapped error

We have had a couple of instances where a build has been progressing and unexpectedly failed due to an un-trapped error. As all logs are built in memory and only written to disk at the end of the process, trying to identify or narrow down the pote...

shared classes to support .jrt and nested jars

I am using zowe - and it takes a long time to start. (as well as z/osmf) I can see from the shared classes output and the output of -verbose:classes that most files are not found in the shared classes cache. These classes come from nested jars... ...
9 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 3 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...

Support of GCM mode for IBMJCECCA with a key from CKDS

On z/OS we do file encryption with a JAVA framework that must use the IBMJCECCA provider to use a CKDS key. The cipher.update function is not supported in this mode, but it is supported in CBC mode. It is indispensable for encrypting large files F...
6 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 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...
7 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration