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    IMS DB metrics support for anomaly detection

    Add IMS DB metrics in Concert for Z, for anomaly detection using Machine Learning techniques
    24 days ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Under review

    Concert for Z KPI for IMS

    Would you add the following KPIs for IMS?Our customer is thinking to use IBM Concert for Z to detect the anomaly about the folloiwngs Response time for each IMS transaction Usage of buffer pool for each ones; DB buffer, PSB/DMB pool, DFSPOOL, ...
    27 days ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Under review

    Fix HLASM line continuation detection issue in MortgageApplication sample shipped with DBB

    The HLASM parser fails to correctly capture the line continuation when using IBM Z Open Editor to view the epsmort.bms file (lines 24-27) of the MortgageApplication sample shipped with DBB, and marks it as a code warning. See lines 24-28 of the at...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 0 Under review

    IBM Concert for Z Japanese panel support

    Our customers want to have Japanese panels, such as report title, description, expert advice and help. Especially expert advice function is approved by many customers when they see the demo and they are also disappointed it is just in English only...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Under review

    Please add the batch program to send SMP/E information to IBM Concert for Z

    Our customer wants to collect SMP/E information using the batch job to use IBM Concert for Z in the separate system from the target z/OS.
    about 2 months ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Under review

    Please add the APAR list on APAR Management of IBM Concert for Z

    Our customers want to have the panel for the followings. (1) HOLD Action description for the specific APAR (2) APAR lists which is required to apply by each LPAR To follow their current operation for APAR Management, they need these functions in a...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Planned for future release

    Allow user builds to run inside a container

    With the introduction of native container images for z/OS (z/OS Container Platform) it only makes sense to package Java, DBB and the build scripts (zAppBuild or self-written) into an image to use it across different builds. Today, IDz supports sta...
    2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 3 Not under consideration

    Introduce new extension, .spcbl, and potentially a new boolean variable. ${IS_SP}, to be used in DBB and other DevOps products for Cobol Stored Procedures.

    Currently there is no easy way to determine if a Cobol program is a Cobol Batch program or a Cobol Stored Procedure. Since they have different compiler options, it is important to be able to indicate to DBB and other DevOps tools which one - Cobol...
    3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Not under consideration

    Need a way to prevent IDz from copying zAppBuild/Groovy user build configuration

    It has been observed that during the copying of a program from one project/Git repository to another in IDz, the associated zAppBuild/Groovy user build configuration is also transferred (HLQ, Build groovy script, application,...). The customer sug...
    3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Future consideration

    Add ability to toggle on and off quotes around DBB IDz User Build entry for paths that have a user name with a # or # in the path

    We are encountering issues with DBB and the dbb-zappbuild scripts that we believe are the result of the UserID naming strategy for the environment.On the system we are currently trying to test in all UserIDs follow a naming convention which includ...
    4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Needs more information

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