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Add z/TPF to the supported systems for the MQ Agentic AI

IBM has an MQ Agentic AI and z/TPF will soon support the Agentic AI framework. Having the MQ Agentic AI supported on z/TPF will strengthen the case for customers to try AI and the Watsonx Assistant for Z.
5 minutes ago in IBM Z System Automation Submitted

CICS csd file merge with required program names

Hi Team, Background: We have 755 CICS lists in Production. Each CICSLIST is extracted individually, and we run the IBM-provided script (RunMerge.bat) to generate a consolidated output file. This output file is then added to the project Configurati...
about 8 hours ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery Submitted

Add an AI-Powered Intelligent Project Generator and Deployment Assistant to the AI Toolkit for IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE

I would like to propose adding an AI-Powered Intelligent Project Generator and Deployment Assistant to the AI Toolkit for IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE. Many developers, students, and enterprise teams are interested in building AI applications on IBM Z a...
2 days ago in AI Toolkit for IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE Submitted

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4 days ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Apache Kafka Submitted

Implement support for targetEncoding parameter when performing Unix to Unix (or PDS to PDS) file copy

Currently when type: copy is used in yaml configurations there is a parameter called targetEncoding that sets the encoding type for the target or destination file copy. This target encoding parameter only works for PDS->USS or USS->PDS copie...
4 days ago in Dependency Based Build Submitted

Implement Delta Build Support for IBM ADDI to Build Only Changed Components

We would like to request the addition of a Delta Build capability within IBM Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence (ADDI). Currently, ADDI project builds require processing the entire application inventory regardless of the scope of sour...
4 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery Under review

Provide option to strip blanks or zeroes from SMF data

Splunk charges data ingestion by the number of bytes received. Sending fields that are completely blank, have a large number of trailing blanks, or that are several bytes of zeroes inflates the ingestion cost for no benefit.
4 days ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider Submitted

Change location of customized Unix Files for OIDC to a static location outside the oidcnode directory UNPAXed during install

This would prevent the need to copy these from PTF/Version to the new PTF/Version location the oidcnode directory is extracted to after applying new PTF's/Versions.
5 days ago in Z Multi-Factor Authentication Submitted

Allow easy backout of the latest SPE code on start up of controller, using a parameter like SPE=YES/NO where YES is the default and NO means to REMOVE the last SPE code

We have had too many situations where an SPE like SPE10204 was applied but then some issue arose which required to back out the SPE- however this is difficult to do, especially in an emergency (severity 1 ) situation
5 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler Not under consideration

Identify users that fail to complete MFA registration

When the security administrator assigns an MFA factor with REGSTATE:OPEN for a user ID, you can only expect the user to complete the registration. But what if they ignore it? We need a way to identify users with REGSTATE:OPEN between the hundreds ...
5 days ago in zSecure / zSecure Admin Under review

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