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Support jUnit as output format in zCodeScan

Add support for jUnit/xml as an output format from zCodeScan besides sonar cube/json This would make transitioning from IDz Code review easier for us that is running a build orchestrator (i.e. Team City) that have native support to present testres...
23 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 0 Submitted

Python - Add MSAL library from Microsoft to call Azure API for authentication

We have a use-case to automate PKI calls using APIs in Azure but that requires the MSAL library from Microsoft: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity-platform/msal-overviewHowever, when running the python script that relies in msal the ...
about 1 month ago in Python AI Toolkit for IBM z/OS 2 Submitted

Add support for ZFS in zoautil_py.datasets.copy()

It should be possible to copy a whole ZFS dataset, not just a zFS file.
3 months ago in Python AI Toolkit for IBM z/OS 0 Submitted

Including KafkaProducer in Python AI Toolkit for z/OS

This benefits the users who are trying to collect data residing in a z/OS environment and publish to Kafka
7 months ago in Python AI Toolkit for IBM z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add pyzfile to the supported packages

Pyzfile (pronounced pie-zee-file) is a Python package for performing I/O on native MVS record oriented data sets. All access methods are supported including QSAM, BSAM, VSAM (KSDS, ESDS, RRDS) and hiperspaces. This library is a wrapper over the z/...
over 1 year ago in Python AI Toolkit for IBM z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Increased inventory for data-science packages

We're looking for an increased data science package inventory that includes sentence-transformers, sentence-transformers, fasttext, jellyfish, phonetics, RapidFuzz, spellwise, SymSpell for python 3.13+
5 months ago in Python AI Toolkit for IBM z/OS 1 Future consideration

IDZ Sofware Analyzer - Client Batch Mode - Link with z/OS Copybooks

When we work with IDZ in an interactive mode (eclipse UI), we have added property groups for our projects, in order to link cobol copybooks strored on z/OS PDS (especially technical copybooks we don't need in the Workspace : SQL Messages, MQ, ...)...
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

Onboard confluent-kafka python packages to IBM AI toolkit repository

This is an essential python package that is widely used by our clients in distributed platform, this package will provide the necessary support for our developers to interact with confluent kafka product on mainframe.
almost 2 years ago in Python AI Toolkit for IBM z/OS 0 Future consideration

Store outputs of the software analyzer in individual files

At the moment the output of all runs is stored in a single file. In the future, we would like the run of every programm anaylized stored in an individual file (XML, JUnit, ...).
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

Improve and expand batch Software Analyzer functionality in IDz (z/os Explorer Extension)

Improve generated reports and outputs from IDz's batch Software Analyzer.Currently, the report that is generated from a batch run is 0 bytes and contains no details.The other files are included in the zip but are xml and hard to analyze.
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 2 Not under consideration