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Enhancement Proposal for ZCodeScan Report Generation

Currently, when a ZCodeScan review is initiated from the USS environment, the default report format generated is YAML. While this format is functional, it presents certain limitations in terms of direct readability, particularly for precise identi...
28 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer Submitted

Remove password requirement for zCodescan cli running on z/OS

zCodescan cli requires today config file that includes password information. This is not recommended solution by our security department when running cli on z/OS. Preferably implement solution not requiring passwords running zCodescan locally on z...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer Submitted

zCodeScan False Positive in CheckSqlcodeAfterExecSqlRule when SQLCODE is validated using EVALUATE TRUE

zCodeScan currently raises the CheckSqlcodeAfterExecSqlRule warning when SQLCODE is validated using an: EXEC SQL … END-EXECEVALUATE TRUE WHEN SQLCODE … Although this is valid and commonly used COBOL logic, the rule does not recognize this pattern ...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer Submitted

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...
8 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer Future consideration

ZCodescan support for High Level Assembler and bulk scan support

1. It will be great if support for vulnerability scanning can be added for HLASM. Big shops like us have thousands of high level assembler programs live in production. Ability to scan high level assembler will ensure compliance and security. 2. We...
6 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer Not under 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, ...)...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 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 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 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.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer Not under consideration

Improve performance for running code review by JCL

When running a code review/sowftware analyze in IDz it takes miliseconds, when running it by JCL the same code review takes about a minute. Most of the time seems to isolated to starting up a headless instance of eclipse, even when implementing ca...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer Future consideration

General codingrules missing in static analysis

Add 3 more coding rules regarding static analysis that we think should be in IDz by default. 1. Strings should only be moved to variables large enough to hold them without truncation https://rules.sonarsource.com/cobol/type/Bug/RSPEC-3921 2. Colla...
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer Future consideration