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    Enable create for a sequential extended dataset to take advantage of pervasive encryption

    It was recently found that even though we were passing a DATACLAS that specified EXTENDED attributes, ZOAU appears to be overriding it and it was still landing as a BASIC or LARGE dataset type. We had tried multiple combinations and research befor...
    about 1 month ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Submitted

    Enhance jsub to be event driven

    It would be great if we could enhance jsub to be notified by an even when the submission has finished, rather than by polling the JES log. In our testing, especially for short running jobs, which make up the majority of our test suite, we have fou...
    9 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Under review

    ISPF statistics retention for dcp operations

    For our Ansible-based deployment solution, we use the zos_copy module from the ibm_zos_core collection (version 1.8.0). We note the absence of ISPF statistics on our PDS and this is particularly penalizing for our PARMLIBs. The objective of this p...
    over 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 7 Planned for future release

    PL/I MACRO support for IBM Z Open Editor

    Please consider PL/I MACRO support for IBM Z Open Editor. We are considering modernizing our development environment for PL/I programs. We are particularly interested in VSCode, which is lightweight and used by many developers, and would like to u...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Future consideration

    Allow NULL values on Save and Load of XML files used in Stored Procedure call.

    When running/calling a DB2 Stored Procedure in the IDz user interface and using the save and load feature for input, values set to NULL will be saved to an XML file as an empty string. When loading the XML file, values will not be set to null but ...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 0 Submitted

    Add regexp support to dgrep

    Add possibility to search with regexp patterns in dgrep, similarly like grep has. This improves usability of dgrep.
    about 1 month ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

    Bring the Host Connection Emulator HCE back into IDz. Its just better than RCE

    Bring the Host Connection Emulator HCE back into IDz. Its just better than RCE. Our developers are used to HCE and what it offers. RCE is just not at its level and therefore the developers won't switch to IDz 16.0 unless the HCE is in there.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 7 Not under consideration

    Add support to zoautil_py.datasets & zoautil_py.zoau_io to be given a DD as parameter

    Add support to zoautil_py.datasets & zoautil_py.zoau_io to be given a DD as parameter, instead of having to hardcode the dataset name: In the JCL: //DDIN DD DSN=XXXX.YYYY.ZZZZ,DISP=SHR In the Python code: datasets.read('//DDIN') instead of: da...
    over 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 2 Planned for future release

    IMS DB metrics support for anomaly detection

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

    Support of jls command with JCL statement /*ROUTE XEQ in ZOAU for different systems

    Customer is getting error "BGYSC3503E Failed to retrieve job list." with Wazi Deploy 3.0.5. and zoau v 1.3.6 when using different systems. It however works with WaziDeploy 3.0.5. and zoau v 1.2.5.1. ZOAU should provide the possibility for jls comm...
    8 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

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