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Quantum Discovery Lab (QDL) is an AI-powered platform that combines artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and molecular simulation to discover and prioritize new drug candidates faster and more efficiently.

Quantum Discovery Lab (QDL) is a proposed AI and quantum-computing platform designed to accelerate drug discovery by combining artificial intelligence, molecular simulation, classical high-performance computing, and quantum algorithms. QDL would h...
30 minutes ago in IBM Shopz Submitted

Intellimagic with AI to report on Application online and NSPs with Application Transaction SLO/SLA maximum TPS and determine response time to understand if knee of curve regarding when degraded response time kicks inefore in on Ap

Why is it useful? Determine whether degraded response time occurs before or beyond SLO/SLA maximum TPS limit Who would benefit from it? All Mainframe Intellimagic customers How should it work? Also include maximum reported TPS with response time t...
about 4 hours ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Submitted

Mapping detailed BU & Application breakdown and when comparing baseline to new changing patterns utilize AI included with Intellimagic to report, analyze and determine RCA for significant variation & Response time latency implications

Why is it useful? Mainframe running high volume & complex applications, mixed workloads across multiple subsystem that with Intellimagic can focus on one subsystem component to report, analyze and drill-down. However, with Intellimagic AI comp...
about 5 hours ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Submitted

Operational Automation Impact Simulator and Safe-Change Validation for IBM Z NetView

I propose adding an Operational Automation Impact Simulator and Safe-Change Validation capability for IBM Z NetView to help organizations safely evaluate, validate, and understand the potential impact of automation-rule changes before they are int...
3 days ago in IBM Z NetView Submitted

Provide mapping support for SMF type 122 subtype 2 and 4

Please provide the ability to map SMF 122 subtype 2 (Dependency Based Build) and subtype 4 (Wazi Deploy) to allow us to stream the records to Splunk. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/adffz/dbb/3.0.x?topic=SS6T76_3.0.0/smflayout.htm https://www.ibm.com/...
4 days ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider Under review

Update TCPALVER field to better reflect SERVER_ENCRYPT

Currently there are 2 fields for TCPALVER in the DSNZPARM Authorization, RLF, and DDF Parameters panel under AUTH/RLF/DDF in the DSNTIP5-DDF 2 block - TCP/IP Already Verified (TCPALVER) and Extended Option for TCPALVER. If Db2 TCPALVER is set to S...
4 days ago in Z OMEGAMON AI for Db2 Submitted

Managing Input and Output of an Assembler Program Called from a COBOL

We would like to see the STUB inputs and outputs be modifiable (or at least legible for outputs) in the case of unit tests on a COBOL program, when it calls a program written in the Assembler. We've had several demonstrations of the product, and t...
4 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing Submitted

Display alias occurences by the original name

Follow up to WAO-I-415 In addition, it is necessary to filter for the original application ID in the current plan using PIF and the 5.* panels. For example: 5.2 or 5.3 contains a flag like "display alias occurences". This allows the previous filte...
4 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler Submitted

Enhance GitUtilities class to add the ability to get author name and email information from Git for a given source file

This would allow us to leverage the information for other build related activities and/or reporting where we might need to notify the individual who last updated the file.
5 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build Submitted