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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

    DFSJVMAP member of the IMS PROCLIB data set is not available for the STDENV option

    The DFSJVMEV and DFSJVMMS members of the IMS proclib can be overruled by using the //STDENV option in JCL. Is it possible to make this also available for the DFSJVMAP member? This would improve the DEVOPS experience when using the STDENV option in...
    12 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 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

    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

    Add support for OTMA transaction expiration for IFP regions

    IMS transaction can be defined to expire OTMA messages to prevent the use of resources for messages that are waiting too long to be processed. For transactions that run in MPP regions, there are three types of checks that IMS does to see if the tr...
    about 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 0 Under review

    Be able to preload classes in JVM for executing Java IMS transactions

    To avoid a significant CPU and elapsed time impact after a JVM restart—particularly on the first executed transactions—it may be a good idea to preload a list of Java classes before the business applications start running, during JVM initializatio...
    4 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 0 Under review

    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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