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    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...
    2 days ago in Dependency Based Build 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...
    3 days ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Future consideration

    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...
    30 days ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 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...
    7 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

    Update environment checker

    There are some scenarios and situations that are not included as part of the environment checker that can have impact on the ICIC services. ICIC should ensure that logrotate settings are correct, check for required directory permissions and secont...
    7 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

    Option to change "instance_name_template" after installation to modify the virtual machine prefix

    During installation, there is a property in the config.properties file that defines the virtual machine prefix for the deployed systems. The property is called "instance_name_template" and gets set in the nova configuration to define the virtual m...
    7 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

    Global change for default_admin_userid after installation

    During ICIC installation, there is an optional parameter for z/VM configuration, "default_admin_userid," that when populated will add a LOGONBY statement to the z/VM User Directory of virtual machine deployments. This parameter is set on the confi...
    7 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

    Authentication logging and auditing to include user names

    Currently the keystone and audit logs in ICIC use the user's unique id from openstack while logging the activities. The mapping for user id to user name is available through openstack commands on the management node. If the log files are uploaded ...
    7 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

    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...
    4 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

    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 1 month ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 0 Under review

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