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Add support for IMS explorer to use certificate/smartcard as login method toward IMS Connect

As an extension to IMSES-I-112 we also suggest adding certificate logon support for IMS Explorer and especially Transaction Test Project towards IMS Connect. This as a way to further improve user experience and security as clients then can use exi...
4 months ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 0 Under review

Add support for jwt between IMS Explorer Client and IMS Connect for Transaction Test Projects

When using for example OTP (one time password) as a method for MFA, that is a requirement in many organizations, to logon RSE etc. Each task/service require a separate logon with a separate OTP, some services does not even support OTP. As an examp...
4 months ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 0 Under review

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...
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Future consideration

Automatic removal of USS user content uploaded by Dependency Base Build from IDz build process to avoid impact in further builds

We are starting to receive complaints from developers using IDz Dependency Base Build due to unexpected behaviors in their build processes. Those compains are related with the build process using different copybooks than the ones the developer con...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 2 Planned for future release

Allow AAM to nullify EXPDT/RETPD

Files that do not get a DC and/or MC and are allocated with an expiration date cannot be deleted with normal BR14 MOD,DELETE or with IDCAMS DELETE without PURGE. This is the same functionality that this product replaces in our shop - Broadcom Allo...
3 months ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 1 Future consideration

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...
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 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...
6 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 3 Not under consideration

IMS Connect support for NodeJS

NodeJS is currently supported by z/OS Connect. We would like the ability to communicate directly to IMS Connect from a NodeJS program using TMRA.
almost 8 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 2 Not under consideration

support signed tokens for callout/consumer scenario

support signed tokens for callout/consumer scenario
about 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 1 Not under consideration

User Build - Automatically upload additional dependent files when changed

For VS Code it is possible to define additionalDependencies necessary to execute an User Build in zapp.yaml. The defined files / directories are uploaded to the z/OS-workspace while running "Setup for IBM User Build". Generally the user build conf...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Future consideration